On Friday, September 22nd, Juilliard students previewed Dvořák’s rarely heard String Quartet No. 2, performed later in full concert on Sunday, September 24th at 3 PM., as part of Dvořák’s Chamber Music Survey series presented at the Bohemian National Hall by the Dvořák American Heritage Association.
Antonín Dvořák III, 88, grandson of Czech composer Antonín Dvořák
Jiří Bělohlávek, 71, Conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
DAHA recommends two new and noteworthy additions to Burleigh music appreciation and scholarship.
The New York Philharmonic 175th anniversary season commenced in late September with three exciting programs featuring Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, From the New World — the Philharmonic’s first World Premiere of a work written in New York that would become part of the standard repertoire. That history-making premiere took place in December 1893, and provides this year’s theme for the Philharmonic’s programming and educational outreach.
The House in Prague, a new book by Anna Nessy Perlberg, explores her childhood memories of her musically talented mother and her family’s life in Prague, shattered in 1938 by the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia. Featured in the recent Literary Festival: Prague Summer Program at the Bohemian National Hall in New York City, the book is linked to the Dvořák Room and its collection in an intimate way.
Musicologist and DAHA Vice President Michael Beckerman discusses the music of Dvořák and Martinů in conjunction with a performance by the Pavel Haas Quartet at the Library of Congress, which featured Martinů's String Quartet no. 3, H. 183, and Dvořák's String Quartet in D minor, op. 34 and String Quartet in F major, op. 96 ("American").
Michael Beckerman, Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Music at New York University and Vice-President of the Dvořák American Heritage Association, was featured in a New York Times article on December 4th, with comments about the New York Philharmonic’s original orchestral parts from the “New World” Symphony.
"Unfinished Dvořák Manuscript To Be Presented in New York," April 3, 2014 in The Strad: http://bit.ly/1mZL2at
Read the New York Times article about DAHA's recent exhibition, "The Deal that Brought Dvořák to New York" by Michael Cooper, Saturday; August 24, 2013: http://nyti.ms/1iEcU1h