Cedar Rapids is rolling out its grassroots Czech carpet for the public premiere of a documentary about Bohemian composer Antonin Dvorak, who spent a celebrated summer in Spillville in 1893.
Admission is free, but tickets are required.
Lucille Carra and Brian Cotnoir, while negotiating their predicament, listened as an unmistakable melody filled the air. Bells were chiming from the Largo of Antonin Dvorak's Symphony No. Indeed, it was 6 p.m. that day in Japan. People were headed home from work. It was 1991, nearly a century af ter the Czech composer arrived in America for his three-year stay, from 1892 to 1895.