Bedřich Smetana: Who was the Bohemian composer? Smetana is best known for his series of symphonic poems Má Vlast, which includes the famous Vltava (The Moldau) ...

Flute-player Emi Ferguson looks at the impact of syphilis Bedřich Smetana the man, composer, and Czech national icon.

It’s hard to imagine a more fitting setting for Bedrich Smetana’s “Vltava” (better known to many as “The Moldau”) than the Filene Center at Wolf Trap on Friday night, where heavy rains ...

It was 195 years ago today that Bedrich Smetana was born, in a part of the world that would become, for most of the 20th century, Czechoslovakia.

By a happy chance the 2024 festival coincides with the bicentenary of Bedrich Smetana, the most important Czech composer of the mid-19th century, who was active when a wave of nationalism was ...

Mollie Smetana, Clinical Social Work/Therapist, New York, NY, 10075, (646) 374-4179, If you are feeling stuck in your everyday life and are looking for the chance to change, you are not alone. As ...

More years ago than I care to remember, I first made the acquaintance of Bedrich Smetana and his masterpiece Má Vlast. Smetana wrote much more than this, but it's become something of a signature ...

I went to Czechoslovakia in a fourth-grade music appreciation class. Of course, it was only in my head; I was listening to “The Moldau,” by 19th century Czech composer Bedrich Smetana. It ...

In all the years this column has been running, I don't think I have written one word about Bedrich Smetana. Yet he is an important figure in Czech music of the 19th century, described by some as ...

Smetana - Ma Vlast Frances Fyfield is in Prague to see both the handwritten score and some early sketches of Smetana's glorious Ma Vlast, My Land, including the famous evocation of the river Moldau.

Jennifer A Smetana, Clinical Social Work/Therapist, Dingmans Ferry, PA, 18328, (570) 232-4760, I believe in meeting you where you are at emotionally--whatever is the most pressing issue on your ...