Dvorak News

Organized by the International Dvorak Society, the American Spring music festival annually brings internationally renowned soloists and music ensembles to a broad audience in the Czech Republic, with concerts and master classes taking place in dozens of towns and villages around the country.

The Tao Dance Theater Company of China will make its Israeli debut as part of the Tel Aviv Dance Festival.

But that doesn't cover a chamber orchestra's breadth of repertoire, from baroque to modern pieces, nor the kind of nuanced playing and ensemble communication that Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Frank Almond and a number of his MSO colleagues brought to chamber orchestra repertoire for Monday evening's Frankly Music program.

This month will conclude with the San Francisco Symphony debut of the young Slovakian conductor Juraj Valcuha.

The final performance of the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra's 18th season holds a late program change, with a substituted concerto dovetailed into a fittingly big and bold finale.

The biannual Vocal Music Festival in the picturesque Arab village of Abu Ghosh on the outskirts of Jerusalem takes place between May 15-18. Directed by Hannah Tzur, the popular festival offers a host of appealing concerts, performed in the local churches, which are famous for their excellent acoustics.

Pittsburgh Civic Orchestra's season finale takes place May 18 at the Upper St. Clair Theater, 1825 McLaughlin Run Road.

The community prepares for the annual summer festival, which is slated to feature a baby show with a celebrity judge.

The Classic Choral Society and Orchestra, under the direction of Janiece Kohler, presented two of Antonin Dvorak's religious works, the Mass in D Major and his "Te Deum," Sunday afternoon at Grace Methodist Church.

Dvorak's New World Symphony, one of my favorite pieces in all of music, will fill Abravanel Hall May 10 as the Utah Youth Orchestra will present their annual spring concert.

It's a double-header of Matthias Goerne and Christoph Eschenbach this week at Davis; tonight is the last of three programs of Wagner excerpts and the New World Symphony, tomorrow it's Schubert's Winterreise .

Last night conductor Christoph Eschenbach gave the first of his three concerts of the program he prepared for this season's visit to the podium of the San Francisco Symphony in Davies Symphony Hall.

A HUMBLE afternoon radio concert it may have been, but what a belter of a show the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra put on - driven, vivid and full of life.

The San Francisco Symphony welcomes Christoph Eschenbach to Davies Symphony Hall this week for a three-concert series featuring two works by Wagner, and Dvorak's Symphony No 9. The soloist in the arias from The Flying Dutchman and Die Walkure is German baritone, Matthias Goerne .

When Antonin Dvorak, Czech-born, came to America he had as his assistant the African American composer, Harry T. Burleigh.