DAHA’s virtual holiday program, introduced by Professor Michael Beckerman of NYU, included two popular events from DAHA’s archive. Viewers first enjoyed a film about the American premiere of Georgius Zrunek's tri-lingual Christmas Mass of 1766 featuring the Czech early music group Ritornello and NYU collegiate choristers as they prepared the delightful Zrunek work for concert in 2010.

From DAHA’s archive, viewers watched the brilliant Martinů Quartet from Prague performing Antonín Dvořák’s “American” String Quartet, composed during his idyllic midwestern sojourn in the summer of 1893.

DAHA commenced a series of virtual events for the 2020-21 Season on Sunday, October 18th, with an archival recording of Dvořák’s world famous Cello Concerto originally performed March 26, 2017 by renowned cellist Marcy Rosen and the Aaron Copland School of Music Orchestra under the baton of the late conductor Maurice Peress, founding DAHA Board Member and Music Advisor. Originally broadcast March 26, 2017, the American period masterwork - the most celebrated of cello concertos to this day - was played before a capacity audience in the historic Bohemian National Hall, “Národní Budova,” built in 1896 for the New York Czech and Slovak community.

On Sunday, February 2nd, the award-winning Aeolus Quartet returned to perform a program of Czech masterworks, including Antonín Dvořák's Piano Quintet in A Major, Opus 81, one of the jewels of chamber music repertory. The program also included a selection of Dvořák's love songs from The Cypresses cycle as well as a colorful set of international dance pieces by Erwin Schulhoff.