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Czech Composer Leos Janacek (Jenufa) was fascinated by Dostoevsky's autobiographical novel. From the House of the Dead, about life in a Siberian prison camp. In 1928, in the last year of his life but still at the peak of his powers. Janacek used the Dostoevsky work as the basis of a three-act opera. It had one of its rare performances last summer at the Holland Festival, where it was recorded by Phillips, and last week Aus Einem Totenhaus was released in the U.S. on two Epic...
What I tried to express was my belief that not all Czech music is great music. As a Czech, I could hardly dismiss such composers as Smetana, Dvorak, Janacek and Martinu...
...Orchestra Hall, took his place on the conductor's stand. The applause was cordially perfunctory. But by the time he had led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through the bouncing overture to Bedrich Smetana's Bartered Bride, Mozart's Symphony No. 38 (Prague) and Leos Janacek's bone-rattling Taras Bulba, Chicagoans were clapping hard. Thirty-five-year-old Conductor Rafael Kubelik, son of the late great Czech Violinist Jan Kubelik, they decided, was a credit to his father...
When he completes his three weeks of concerts in Chicago (where besides music by fellow Czechs Smetana and Janacek he will conduct Countryman Antonin Dvorak's New World Symphony), Rafael will set out again. After an engagement as guest conductor with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, he will head back to Europe for orchestra dates in Britain, The Netherlands, Switzerland and Italy. Next summer he plans a tour of South America. By that time, if he decided to settle down, he could be sure of some offers. One job Kubelik admirers in Britain would like to see him take: that...
...program for tonight's concert will be as follows: Song of the Sea Bedrich Smetana The Wicked Sweetheart Antonin Dvorak The Sparrow's Party Antonin Dvorak Hymnus (Double Chorus) J. P. Foerster The Grim Guest (Double Chorus) J. Kricka On the Field Path J. P. Foerster "70,000" Leos Janacek National Folk-songs and Dances The Evening Star (Slovak) J. Kricka I Have No Joy (Czech) J. Jindrich The Presburg Barracks (Slovak) J. Kricka Tit for Tat (Czech Dance) H. Palla Cardas (Dance, dance and whirl ye around (Slovak) B. Pokorny