BBLA Newsletter FEBRUARY 2017 | Issue No. 50
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EVERYBODY TALKS
RUSALKA IN NEW YORK!
The Metropolitan Opera > Kristine Opolais stars in the role that helped launch her international career, the mythical Rusalka, who sings the haunting "Song to the Moon." Mary Zimmerman brings her wondrous theatrical imagination to Antonin Dvorak's fairy tale of love and longing, rejection and redemption.
Costume designer Mara Blumenfeld and Elissa Iberti, head of the Met's costume shop, discuss the fairy tale costumes for
Rusalka.
How should the dress of the Water Nymph look like?
And this is the final result: Kristine Opolais sings the title character's
Song to the Moon from Act I of
Rusalka at the final dress rehearsal.
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HERE IS WHAT'S COMING IN FEBRUARY
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Wednesday, February 1, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
art exhibition opening
venue:
BBLA Gallery at
Bohemian National Hall
>> Free and open to the public.
An opening for the exhibition
Sensitive Bodies of (My) Mind presenting abstract paintings by the Czech visual artist Josef Duchan. The art historian Jana Sevcikova wrote of Duchan's work, "Paintings of Josef Duchan open for us his conception of visual world which we can follow from his radical fragmentation to the smallest elements to their incorporation into the super complex unity."
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February 1 - 23
exhibition, guided tours
venue:
Dvorak Room at
Bohemian National Hall
>> Free and open to the public.
Guided tours: February 7, 9, 14, 16, 21, 23 at 3:00 and 5:00 PM. RSVP for tours by calling 646.422.3395
Explore Antonin Dvorak's beloved country house at Vysoka, the Czech Republic, and its scenic surroundings in recent photographs by noted Czech photographer Eva Heyd. Finding inspiration in nature, Dvorak composed the opera Rusalka, The Water Nymph over a period of seven months in 1900, largely in this idyllic setting.
Guided tours of the exhibition
Mythic Bohemia, together with the exhibition
Rusalka at the Czech Center Gallery, will be offered in February twice a week: February 7, 9, 14, 16, 21, 23 at 3:00 and 5:00 PM. RSVP for tours by calling 646.422.3395.
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February 2-23
art exhibition
venue:
BBLA Gallery at
Bohemian National Hall
Viewing hours: Monday - Friday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
(Please note that BBLA's exhibition space is occasionally closed for events. Call 212-988-1733 to verify access.)
>> Free and open to the public.
The exhibition
Sensitive Bodies of (My) Mind presents abstract paintings by the Czech visual artist Josef Duchan. The art historian Jana Sevcikova wrote of Duchan's work, "Paintings of Josef Duchan open for us his conception of visual world which we can follow from his radical fragmentation to the smallest elements to their incorporation into the super complex unity."
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Thursday, February 9, 7:00 PM
talk
venue:
Bohemian National Hall
>> Free and open to the public.
Register your seat.
Musicologist Michael Beckerman explores deeper meanings of Antonin Dvorak's opera
Rusalka. Characterized as a "fairy-tale" opera,
Rusalka is indeed at least in part based on the the
Little Mermaid story. But the opera, both in its use of recurring motives and in its psychological depth, aspires to the dramatic power of Wagner's Tristan from
Tristan and Isolde rather than the picturesque and contained world of Hans Christian Andersen.
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Sunday, February 26, 3:00-5:00 PM
symposium
venue:
Bohemian National Hall
>> Pay at door $20; Seniors, Students, Czech Center Club Members $10.
A distinguished panel of scholars and musicians will explore the social and aesthetic history and outcomes of Antonin Dvorak's inspirational connections with the late 19th-century African-American community.
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February 27 - March 3
exhibition
venue:
BBLA Gallery at
Bohemian National Hall
Viewing hours: Monday - Friday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
(Please note that BBLA's exhibition space is occasionally closed for events. Call 212-988-1733 to verify access.)
>> Free and open to the public.
Exhibition opening: Wednesday, March 1, 6:30 - 8:30 PM.
The exhibition
Tempus Fugit presents photographs of unique Baroque churches in the Broumov region, a town in the Czech Republic near the border with Poland. Architecturally unique and rare churches were built by the renowned architects Krystof and Kilian Ignac Dientzenhofer in the first half of the 18th century.
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BBLA RECOMMENDS IN FEBRUARY
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Monday, February 6, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
concert
Acclaimed Czech violinist Ivan Zenaty and his long term stage partner American pianist Sandra Shapiro are coming from Cleveland Institute of Music to Bohemian National Hall in New York two months before their concert in Carnegie Hall. Do not miss the opportunity the enjoy their excellent performance of the Czech classical music.
venue: Bohemian National Hall
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theater
Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre presents Three Golden Hairs of Grandfather Wisdom. Written and directed by Vit Horejs, it is performed by four performers, four dozen marionettes of various sizes and a mounted deer's head. The evening is named for its first story, a Czech tale, in which a charcoal burner's son, predestined by his fairy godmother to marry a princess, is sent by his angered father-in-law King on a quest for the sun's three golden hairs in hope that the young man will perish.
venue: Theater for the New City
(155 1st Avenue, between East 9th and East 10th Streets, New York 10003)
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BBLA'S MEMBER
ORGANIZATIONS
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Association of Free Czechoslovak Sportsmen
Czech and Slovak Solidarity Council
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SAVE THE DATE for BOHEMIAN BASH
- our annual dance ball!
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Bohemian Benevolent & Literary Association | 321 East 73rd Street, 3rd floor | New York, NY 10021
(212) 988-1733 | www.bohemianbenevolent.org | info@bohemianbenevolent.org
BBLA is a not-for-profit organization established in 1891 in
New York City
as an umbrella organization for almost eighty Czech and Slovak immigrant organizations. The mission of BBLA is to preserve and support Czech and Slovak culture in
New York City
. BBLA
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s member organizations include American Fund for Czech and Slovak Leadership Studies, Association of Free Czechoslovak Sportsmen, Czech and Slovak Solidarity Council, Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences in
America
, Dvorak American Heritage Association and Sokol
New York
. BBLA is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization.
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