Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Music journalist Jiri Cerny speaks during a press conference to the 57th edition of the Golden Prague International ...

The Velvet Revolution occurred in 1989 in Czechoslovakia as the country transitioned from a one-party system under communism to a parliamentary government. The name Velvet Revolution came from the non ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by “I don’t want to exclude anything,” says the Czech conductor Jakub Hrusa, who plans to present Czech music alongside mainstream repertoire in London.

Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium is as integral to Manhattan’s bedrock as any place in the city. Yet this week one could be forgiven for thinking it had been transported to Prague (or Brno), so ...

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 ...

This year marks the centennial of the founding of Czechoslovakia. And — as the often-touted most diverse city in the country — it’s no surprise that Houston has many inhabitants either from ...

Twenty years ago, Eastern Europe went through a series of revolutions, beginning with the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. Images of students jingling keys and singing in Wenceslas Square, ...

The Czech Philharmonic, under Chief Conductor and Music Director Semyon Bychkov, commemorates the centennial of the Year of Czech Music in 2024 with a variety of programs around the world, with ...

PRAGUE (AP) — Jiri Cerny, a legendary Czech music critic who introduced Western music to generations of listeners behind the Iron Curtain and became one of the voices of the 1989 anti-communist Velvet ...