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Pavel Haas Quartet performs:Kapralova, String Quartet No. 1, Op. 8
Martinu, String Quartet No. 5, H. 268
Dvorak, String Quartet No. 14 in A-flat Major, Op. 105
The Czech avant-garde was not a single style but a state of mind — an insistence on seeing the world anew. In interwar Prague, painters fractured conventional forms, photographers reimagined space through light and shadow, and composers stripped music to expose raw feeling. The result was an art of radical compression, modern in energy and intensely poetic at heart.
This program traces that spirit across three composers and three generations. In the music of Antonín Dvořák, the Czech voice emerges warm and lyrical, rooted in song and folk rhythm. With Bohuslav Martinů, it becomes cosmopolitan and restless — shaped by Paris and neoclassicism, charged with the pulse of modern life. And with Vítězslava Kaprálová, it reaches a concentrated intensity all its own: taut, psychologically charged, and utterly of its moment.
All three belonged to a Prague alive with artistic experiment — a city where Toyen and Jindřich Štyrský were transforming painting with their surreal canvases, and where composers were pushing music to its expressive limits.
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Bohemian National Hall, 321 E 73rd St, New York, NY 10021-3705, United States, Manhattan
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