Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival is back, with the Spring Stage Readings starting next week. And it's right here, on #UES : free live theater and fabulous acting! Check out the line up: bit.ly/4bsN6CL
#culture #nyc #uppereastside #theater #performingarts #reading

Also on Friday, The Old Bohemians aka Polka Loca w/ klezmer legend, trumpeter Sir Frank London of the Grammy Award winning Klezmatics + accordion master Shoko Nagai & a group of New York’s most adventurous musicians.
Free #nightout : bit.ly/3y7dbJ4
#nyc #ues #music

Next on #UES : The Slovak & Czech Heritage Festival!
On Friday, Slovakia’s premiere Yiddish klezmer group, the Pressburger Klezmer Band, will perform an ecstatic concert and dance music celebrating multiple heritages.
✨Free w/RSVP: bit.ly/3y7dbJ4
#nightout #nyc #music

In 1965 Prague, in communist Czechoslovakia, the American poet Allen Ginsberg found himself unexpectedly crowned as the King of May. Intrigued?

Join us on Wednesday for a talk by Vit Horejs and guests: shorturl.at/aKNUY

#culture #nyc #democracy #ues

With a skill at engaging audiences in the musical dialogue, Katelyn Bouska is a frequent solo and collaborative musician. Join us on Fri to enjoy her unique program combining rarely-heard Czech and American music: bit.ly/3VO8Zrs
#nyc #ues #antonindvorak #culture

Otto Wichterle was the Czech scientist who invented hydrogels and soft contact lenses. Hynek Wichterle, his grandson, is also a scientist. He strives to unlock the mysteries of brain development. Join us for 'The Alchemy of Stem Cell Research.' RSVP: bit.ly/3PKjybf
#nyc

The fascinating story of Miles J. Breuer (1889 –1945), a Czech-American writer who stood at the birth of #scifi literature in the USA, is now available online:
bit.ly/4cE9pH2
#culture #sciencefiction #illustration #writer #books

We're pleased to invite you to a piano recital with a talk by Philadelphia-based pianist and musicologist Katelyn Bouska. On April 19, Katelyn will offer new insights into Antonin Dvorak in America: bit.ly/3PAArFk
#culture #classicalmusic #nyc #ues #uppereastside #piano

Editor of books & articles on #Jewish music, Cantor Matt Austerklein will share his expertise on Bohemia & Moravia in the early modern period, when they were the sites of a dramatic transformation of Ashkenazic cantors into #music professionals. Thursday: bit.ly/3PjyxbX

Happy April Fools' Day, and don't let them fool you! 😎

#VoskovecaWerich #joke #AprilFoolsDay2024

On view until April 27.
#photography #josefkoudelka
#art #czech

Do you know who a cantor is? In our next talk, we'll explore a very interesting era in #Jewish music history.
When Bohemia and Moravia were the sites of a dramatic transformation of Ashkenazic cantors into #music professionals: bit.ly/3PjyxbX
#culture #history #ues #nyc

Drum roll, please! Our Sunday-matinee concert features the world premiere of a concert transcription of Bedrich Smetana’s iconic “Vltava” – newly arranged for chamber ensemble by composer and pianist Moshe Knoll.
A few seats are left: bit.ly/3SVFnGX
#nyc #ues #music

Young #soprano Nicole Goldstein – who recently portrayed Celia in Iolanthe at Carnegie Hall – will be joining us on Sunday in the Spring Musicale,👏 as we celebrate the promise of young musical talent during this Year of Czech Music 2024: bit.ly/3SAHsqt

#culture #NYC

Can't get enough of #classicalmusic ? Neither can we! Next: Dvorak, Suk, Kapralova, Martinu, and Smetana in 'Spring Musicale.' March 3. Check it out: bit.ly/3SAHsqt
#culture #nyc #ues #uppereastside #strings #cello #antonindvorak #arts

Find time on Sunday to join us on Zoom for a really cool talk about Miles Breuer – a writer with Czech origins who stood at the birth of sci-fi literature in the US. Free w/RSVP: bit.ly/3HWnwt1
#pioneer #scifi #zoomtalk #americanstoriesmagazine #culture #literature

Conductor Elliot Roman will lead the musical ensemble underStaffed on Thursday, performing pieces by Schulhoff, Berg, Zelenka, Bach. Join us for a fine evening. #guaranteed
Tickets: bit.ly/49pmFwR
#classicalmusic #nyc #culture #ues #nightout

Did you know? When editor Hugo Gernsback started in 1926 the first #scifi magazine Amazing Stories Magazine ,he was soon faced with a shortage of authors. In 1927, Miles J. Breuer, a physician of Czech origin in Nebraska, joined the magazine. Let's talk about it: bit.ly/3HWnwt1

What's not to like about it? 'Bohemian Besties, Baroque and Beyond,' in a concert presented by musical ensemble underStaffed, conducted by Elliot Roman: bit.ly/49pmFwR

#nyc #ues #uppereastside #classicalmusic

For all #theater buffs: have you seen Vit Horejs' performance of the Good Soldier Svejk bit.ly/4bEmW0W? We're going to see it on Sunday & an after-show meetup with the cast and Vit at the Ukrainian East Village Restaurant. Join us: bit.ly/3Oz6xRA
#nightout #nyc