View of The Dvořák Room at the Bohemian National Hall in Upper East Side. Photo: Marian Benes.
The Dvořák Room welcomes in-person visits once again as part of Open House New York, the free Annual OHNY Weekend – an unparalleled citywide cultural event that showcases hundreds of NYC’s most architecturally and culturally significant spaces and places, many not usually open to the public.
The entire Bohemian National Hall – a New York City Landmark dating from 1896 – will be open for whirlwind tours of this remarkable historic center of Czech and Slovak life in New York City. For details about the tours and more information about the program at BNH during OHNY, visit czechcenter.org.
The Dvořák Room was created by the Dvořák American Heritage Association to commemorate and celebrate Dvořák’s influential American years, which inspired his world famous “New World” Symphony, “American“ Quartet and Quintet, and many other beloved works. Memorabilia from Dvořák’s American years are exhibited in a 19th-century period room setting with graphic panels telling the story of Dvořák in America.
There will be on view selected documents from the newsmaking Gilded Age performances of the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall on December 15-16, 1893. Also on view will be a copy of the contract that offered a fortune to the celebrated Czech composer to come to America for his renowned three-year residency from 1892-95. Read details about the contract that brought Dvořák to America in The New York Times.
Tours: 12:00-4:00 pm, parties of up to 10 people at a time. Free admittance, no reservations required. First come, first served.