On Tuesday 13 October at 8pm, the Manoel Theatre is presenting a recital by the well-known Czech quartet, the Janacek String Quartet. The Janacek Quartet (pictured) performs widely in the Czech ...

We tend to look at 20th-century music along lines provided by familiar binaries: Stravinsky vs. Schoenberg, tonal vs. serial, folk tradition vs. modernism. One of the reasons Janacek’s music is so ...

IF, as it seemed, there was a marginal slip in quality in the ensemble performance of the Janacek String Quartet at their second concert yesterday, and perhaps a fractionally less dead-centre tonal ...

Unfamiliar with the Zemlinksy's music, I found his String Quartet No. 1 a welcome revelation. But the musicians' onstage bonhomie and vivid engagement with the audience, along with their tremendous ...

Retiring UVic professor and oboist Alexandra Pohran-Dawkins will be honoured at the school’s next Faculty Chamber Music Series on Saturday. What: Emily Carr String Quartet. When/where: Sunday, 2:30 ...

At age 63, Czech composer Leos Janacek began his most unusual writing project — a constant stream of more than 700 love letters written to a married woman 37 years his junior. It's remarkable, ...