Word: rudolfinum
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...make room for the music, the Czech Parliament moved out of its marble-columned Rudolfinum building. To represent the U.S. in two programs, the Czechs invited Manhattan's brash, brilliant 27-year-old Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein. For a week Bernstein, who speaks no Czech, waved an impatient baton at musicians rehearsing unfamiliar rhythms. At week's end sold-out houses heard a reasonable facsimile of more modern music than most U.S. concertgoers hear in a season...
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