CEDAR RAPIDS - Antonin Dvorak and Leos Janacek were both Czech composers, but that's where the similarity ended at Saturday (2/27) evening's Orchestra Iowa Chamber concert. Violinists Eric Kline and ...

When handsome young Czech Pianist Rudolf Firkusny took his first crack at the U.S. concert stage in 1938, he thought “big bravura playing” was the way to hammer U.S. critics into submission. But about ...

FILE - Music journalist Jiri Cerny speaks during a press conference to the 57th edition of the Golden Prague International Television Festival, in Prague, Aug. 25, 2020. Cerny, a leading Czech music ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Eva Krestová remembered Semyon Bychkov’s first rehearsal as chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic, leading Shostakovich’s “Leningrad” symphony. “I was shaking,” the viola leader ...

The 20th annual Duncanfest will be held on Sept. 16 and 17 in Duncan, which is a small Czech village nestled into the Iowa countryside between Britt and Garner on Highway 18. Festivities will be held ...

PRINCE GEORGE — The Virginia Czech and Slovak Folklife Festival is this weekend. The 8th annual event hosted by the Prince George County Regional Heritage Center is on Saturday, Oct. 15 from 11 a.m.-4 ...