IWAP ART & CULTURE	THE PROGRAM OF THE CONCERT  (80 minutes without interlude) From the Moravian Duets, Op. 32: "The Modest Girl", "The Ring" From the Love Songs, Op. 83: "Death reigns in many human breasts", "When the Sweet Glances on me fall" From the Sonatine in G major, Op. 100: Scherzo Selections from the Biblical Songs, Op. 99 O'Sanctissima, Op. 19 Romance in F Minor, Op. 11 From the comic opera The Cunning Peasant, Op.37: “The Prince's Aria” From the opera Rusalka (The Water Nymph), Op. 114: "Oh, Dear Moon in the Deep Sky" From the oratorio The Stabat Mater, Op. 58:" Inflamatus" From the Gipsy Melodies, Op. 55: "Songs my mother taught me" From the opera The Jacobin, Op. 84: The Steward's Aria Selections from The Gipsy Melodies, Op. 55 Mazurek, Op. 49 BIOGRAPHY Antonín Leopold Dvořák (1841 – 1904) was a Czech composer of Romantic music, who employed the idioms and melodies of the folk music of his native Bohemia and Moravia. His works include operas, symphonic, choral and chamber music. Dvořák was born in Nelahozeves, near Prague, where he spent most of his life. He studied music in Prague's only Organ School at the end of the 1850s, and gradually developed into an accomplished player of the violin and the viola. Throughout the 1860s he played viola in the Bohemian Provisional Theater Orchestra, which from 1866 was conducted by Bedřich Smetana. In 1884 Dvořák was invited to visit England where he appeared to great acclaim. His Symphony No. 7 was written for London; it premiered there in 1885. In 1891 Dvořák received an honorary degree from the University of Cambridge, and his Requiem premiered later that year in Birmingham at the Triennial Music Festival. From 1892 to 1895, Dvořák was the director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York City,  from 1901 until his death in 1904, he was director of the Conservatory in Prague. He is interred in the Vyšehrad cemetery in Prague.
Friday, 22 August at 8:00 pm WONDERFUL DVORAK - GARDEN CONCERT Price: 400 CZK for ticket (to include a glass of sparkling wine and a tour of the museum) Venue: Villa America – Museum of Antonín Dvořák, Ke Karlovu 20, Prague 2
Come to hear unforgettable Dvořák melodies from operas Rusalka, The Jacobin, Moravian Duets, Biblical Songs, Mazurek and many other compositions of the famous composer. A charming musical performance will take us to Dvořák times and we will have the opportunity to join the company of artists who had met at the soprano opera singer Marie’s home for a musical party in the 1904. This special concert will take place in the villa’s beautiful baroque garden decorated with sculptures and vases by Matyáš Braun and his followers. VENUE: Villa Amerika – a baroque summer palace of Vaclav Michna built by Kilian Ignac Diezenhofer between 1712 and 1720 – is today a museum and a research center of Antonin Dvořák. REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT: To book your places please contact as soon as possible the IWAP Social Events Coordinator Marjeta von Massow. Cash payment before 15 August is necessary and can be made at the IWAP Office (please note: the Office will be closed between 10 July and 10 August!). IWAP spouses and friends are welcome. Attendance is limited! How to get to Villa Amerika Public transportation: Metro "C" line - I. P. Pavlova station, tram number 4, 6, 16, 22, 34 - I. P. Pavlova station. Map: clik on this link.