Symphony-goers were reminded it was April Fools’ Day when they were greeted Friday by a fountain from a broken water main in front of the Opera House. Inside, though, the music about four notorious ...

Leos Janacek wrote a lot of Czech pride into his music. Vladimir Valek leads the Prague Radio Symphony in a concert performance of Janacek's "Taras Bulba," a tone poem about a 16th century Czech ...

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Fateful prophecies and exultant perorations – the enduring spirits of Leos Janacek and Josef Suk ascend from the valley of the shadow of death and another of Vladimir Jurowski’s beautifully crafted ...

In a city whose arts organizations virtually never think to coordinate programming, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra actually tried this week. To go along with the Dallas Opera's production of Leos ...

Leos Janacek (LAY-ohsh YAH-nah-check) was born in Moravia, but he loved Russian culture. He studied the language. Gave his two children Russian names, and composed music on Russian themes. Janacek was ...