In the more than two years since she left Sports Illustrated for Meadowlark Media, Jessica Smetana hasn’t been shy to discuss her former employer — often doing so in less than flattering terms. “It’s ...

John Schaefer: I'm John Schaefer, and you're listening to the Artist Propulsion Lab podcast. Today, flute-player Emi Ferguson continues "This Composer is Sick," exploring the impact of syphilis on ...

Beyond the loss of a historic brand and a staff of reporters dedicated to informing sports fans, former Sports Illustrated staffer Jessica Smetana believes the revocation of Arena Group’s license to ...

Smetana's reputation primarily rests on his operas, orchestral works and chamber music, yet he also wrote prolifically for the piano, both in his early years as a concert virtuoso and late in life ...

Smetana's Má Vlast composed between 1874-1879 proves he is a master of the symphonic poem: a descriptive, single-movement orchestral piece, telling a story, painting a musical picture, or conveying a ...

Marenka sings a far different duet in Act Two, seducing the hapless Vasek (Ales Voracek) without letting him know who she really is. Bedrich Smetana wrote music so clearly rooted in his Czech homeland ...

Blanik was the last of an amazing series called "My Country," penned by a composer who was completely deaf. The series was the pinnacle of Bedrich Smetana's life's work, and it's regarded as a ...

Semyon Bychkov tells Michael McManus about the extrordinary power of Smetana’s masterpiece Má vlast, which he has recorded with the Czech Philharmonic for Pentatone When asked to interview Semyon ...

The second instalment of Gianandrea Noseda's Smetana cycle focuses on overtures and dances from his operas. It aims to give us as rounded a portrait of the composer as a single disc can encompass, and ...