Mexico City. The Xalapa Symphony Orchestra (OSX) will bring together 350 artists tomorrow and the day after tomorrow in the Tlaqná room, in the capital of Veracruz, to perform Gustav Mahler’s Symphony number 8, also called the Symphony of a Thousandas part of the celebrations for the 80th anniversary of the Universidad Veracruzana (UV). In … Read more
When Sir Simon Rattle was young, he played Slavonic Dances by Antonín Dvořák with his father on the piano. “They were instrumental in my decision to pursue music,” he says. Next time he will perform them in Prague as the main guest conductor of the Czech Philharmonic. One of the world’s most famous musicians, whose … Read more
Antonín Dvořák loved nature. “In the most beautiful forest I spend the most wonderful days in beautiful weather and I am constantly admiring the enchanting birdsong,” he wrote in 1884 from his summer residence in Vysoké u Příbram. Eight years later, he reported from New York that nature needed “its diminuendo and morendo to revive … Read more
The Czech Philharmonic will start its season with three concerts from next Wednesday, September 27 to Friday, September 29 at the Rudolfinum in Prague. Under the direction of chief conductor Semjon Byčkov, this time he will exclusively play the works of Antonín Dvořák: the Prelude to Nature, the Violin Concerto in A minor and the … Read more