Czech composer Leos Janacek created a love duet for cello and piano and called it "Pohadka," or "Fairy Tale." And though Janacek was proud of his Czech heritage and based many of his works on folk ...

The Czech master Leos Janácek (1854-1928) was recently the focus of Houston Grand Opera's production of The Makropulos Case, the haunting story of a centuries-old diva who tries to seize the potion ...

Czech Composer Leos Janacek was 40 when he started his masterpiece, the opera Jenufa. He was close to 50 when he finished the work and past 60 before he found an audience that could appreciate it. In ...

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Leos Janacek's orchestral masterpiece Sinfonietta arrived last on the scene in the Toronto Symphony Orchestra's concert and rescued it from the doldrums. An earthbound performance of Prokofiev's ...

Jerry Grossman is the cellist and Christopher Oldfather is the pianist in a concert performance of the Russian fairy tale "Pohadka" by Leos Janacek. Grossman and Oldfather teamed up for a Lyric ...