Word: smetana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bartered Bride, April 28. The Met's new production of Smetana's bouncy peasant drama boasts great singers but a botched translation and presentation. Teresa Stratas, Nicolai Gedda, and Jon Vickers (who cancelled his Tuesday Otello performance and may not show here) all are first-class artists, but some miscastings mar their contribution...
CURRIER SCR--Erica Klemperer, violinist, in recital, Music of Beethoven, Dvorak, Bach, Ravel, Smetana. Free. Sunday, February...
...band's playing reached its peak in the eclectic final work. Karel Husa's "Music for Prague 1968." Husa, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Music, borrows whoel motifs from both Bartok and Holst, but draws most heavily on an old Czech song which Smetana, the fervently nationalistic 19th century Czech composer, dramatized in his massive Ma Vlast. Clear playing brought out the wide-ranging passions which inspired the work, both the mournful and the chauvinistic...