Join us for a musical program featuring works from Croatian, Czech and Slovak lands, performed by students from the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance with guest pianist Ivan Pernicki from Zagreb, Croatia. The program includes music for string quartet by the Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff, The Hrvatski Običaj tamburica ensemble, choral music by the Slovak composer Ján Levoslav Bella and solo piano works by the Croatian composer Dora Pejacevic. This program of music associated with the Great War will conclude with the rousing chorus “U boj,” (To Arms) from the Croatian opera Nikola Subic Zrinjski by Ivan Zajc, a march that was popular not only among Croatians, but with Czech and Slovak audiences as well.
Light beverage and small bite reception begins at 6 p.m. FREE with RSVP | J.C. Nichols Auditorium
Sponsors: CZ-USA, Embassy of the Czech Republic, Czech & Slovak Club of Greater Kansas City, Consulate of the Republic of Croatia, The Starr Center for Peace and Justice at University of St. Mary, Slovak Catholic Sokol, Duracomm Corp. Kansas City Missouri
Partners: University of Missouri Kansas City, Consulate of the Czech Republic, Embassy of the Slovak Republic, Consulate of the Slovak Republic, Consulate of the Republic of Croatia