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Interview: Angela Hewitt: “Glenn Gould and I have little in common.”

Your father Godfrey Hewitt was a choirmaster in the Christ Church Cathedral in Ottawa. How did his function and mission affect your relationship to music and your musical focus? How

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Notes from Czechia’s Second Corona Wave

Much like the rest of the of the world, the Czech Republic has been weathering an autumn wave of the coronavirus. While a vaccine seems to be on the horizon

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Will Soňa Červená’s Fund Support Young Artists as Eclectic as the Singer Herself?

In the Czech Republic, Soňa Červená is a rediscovered legend. The mezzo-soprano emigrated from Czechoslovakia in 1962, under dramatic circumstances and, while abroad, sang in major opera houses, including a

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“I see myself as just an interpreter; the true artist is the composer,” says Mahan Esfahani

In the production of the Czech Chamber Music Association, one of Johann Sebastian Bach's iconic works, the first book of The Well-Tempered Clavier, will be played on Wednesday, October 29th

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Jaroslav Vodňanský a conductor with an exceptionally long career has died at the age of 89

Jaroslav Vodňanský, the respected Czech conductor and founder of the South Bohemian Philharmonic Orchestra, died on Saturday, May 10th 2025 at the age of 89. He succumbed to a long

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