Bedrich Smetana is one of the most beloved Czech composers -- two others are Antonin Dvorak and Leos Janacek -- and particularly admired for the orchestral cycle "Ma Vlast" ("My Country") and the ...

It's smaller than the state of Rhode Island, with a population of fewer than a half million. But for a very small country, Luxembourg has an incredibly good orchestra. We take you to a concert by the ...

John Schaefer: I'm John Schaefer, and you're listening to the Artist Propulsion Lab podcast. Today, flute-player Emi Ferguson continues "This Composer is Sick," exploring the impact of syphilis on ...

Blanik was the last of an amazing series called "My Country," penned by a composer who was completely deaf. The series was the pinnacle of Bedrich Smetana's life's work, and it's regarded as a ...

It was 195 years ago today that Bedřich Smetana was born, in a part of the world that would become, for most of the 20th century, Czechoslovakia. Smetana blazed a trail, a partisan of the polka, a ...

Bohemian composer Bedřich Smetana, one of the primary influences that shaped Czech music, kept composing even after becoming deaf due to illness – and delivered one of his most famous works during ...

But what is today’s Google Doodle and who is Bohemian composer Bedřich Smetana? GOOGLE are known for temporary altering their logo to commemorate holidays, anniversaries and other significant events .

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Once a decade there is a Year of Czech Music that reaches out from the Czech Republic to audiences around the ...

TO PAY homage to last century's composers and to the tradition of its Slavic repertoire, the Opera of the Slovak National Theatre (SND) decided to include Czech composer Bedřich Smetana's opera The ...

Though Bedrich Smetana’s DALIBOR—seen this week at Bard SummmerStage in a wonderful production by Jean-Romain Vesperini, with an ingenious set design by Bruno de Lavenere, a fine cast and the American ...

Recently, out of the blue, I received a fascinating communique from a trustee of the Dvorak Society. It was one of those intriguing moments that we all have where, instead of just opening the envelope ...

The great Czech composer Bedřich Smetana would have been 195 today, and the birthday has been marked by a beautiful Google Doodle, set to the music of his Vltava. The piece is one of the six symphonic ...