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		Zdenek Macal, an internationally renowned maestro, was appointed Music Director of the NJSO in 1993.
		Macal and the NJSO celebrated the opening of the acclaimed New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, New Jersey, with a gala performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which was taped for a national broadcast in December 1997.
		Macal has led the NJSO in four other recordings on the Delos label: Dvorak's Stabat Mater was released in 1994; Gliere's Red Poppy Suite and Symphony No. 2 was released in 1996; a third recording, featuring the music of Mussorgsky was released in 1997; and a recording featuring Berlioz' Symphonie fantastique was released in 1998.
	www.aixrecords.com /artists/njso_artist.html (839 words)

	Los Angeles Philharmonic Association - Performer Details
		Macal has also conducted at the Prague National Theater, the Smetana Theater, the Brno Opera, and the opera houses of Cologne, Geneva, Turin and Bologna.
		Macal has recorded the complete Dvorák symphonies and tone poems, as well as Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra for Koss.
		Zdenek Macal's previous positions include Music Directorships of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Cologne Radio Symphony and the Radio Orchestra of Hannover.
	www.laphil.org /resources/performer_detail.cfm?id=550 (488 words)

	JS Online: Music Briefs
		Zdenek Macal, music director of the Milwaukee Symphony from 1988 to 1995, will have a sweet homecoming this week.
		In a decade under Macal, the New Jersey Symphony improved its reputation, won a Grammy and moved into a new performing arts center.
		Macal joined the orchestra at a critical time in its history.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/music/may02/44731.asp?format=print (547 words)

	Zdenek Macal Artist Biography
		Macal has been heard with the Milwaukee Symphony in broadcasts throughout the United States and has been heard with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in national radio broadcasts on the National Public Radio network.
		Zdenek Macal, who is now a U.S. citizen, was born in 1936 in Brno, Czechoslovakia.
		Zdenek Macal, Music Director of the NJSO since 1993, has been associated with the Orchestra for a number of years as a guest conductor and as Artistic Advisor since 1992.
	www.delosmus.com /cgi/cart/bio/zdenek_macal.html?ID=19547983731503 (547 words)

	Greg Sandow -- New Jersey Symphony
		The conductor was its music director, Zdenek Macal; the hall was the then brand-new New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), built in Newark with hope that it might help reawaken that famously troubled city.
		Macal, in his dizzy Czech English, says he told the orchestra, "I can make, if you allow me, miracle with you." The musicians responded, so eagerly that, when I talked to four of them, they cheerfully refused even to listen when I said their conductor might not always reach his fiery best.
		Macal is leaving, and it's not hard to guess that he thinks he's taken the symphony as far as it can go without further changes.
	www.gregsandow.com /nysymph.htm (1249 words)

	Petr Vlha: in praise of Zdenek Macal's magic wand at the Czech Philharmonic - 24-03-2004 - Radio Prague
		You may remember an interview we broadcast last year with Zdenek Macal, when he was appointed chief conductor of the greatest of all Czech orchestras, the Czech Philharmonic.
		It is an orchestra with a head, with a leader, and Zdenek Macal is a perfect leader.
		Zdenek Macal is one of those conductors who sense the music as a magical thing.
	www.radio.cz /en/article/52026/limit (524 words)

	classical music - andante - zdenek macal will miss new jersey farewell
		Former music director Zdenek Macal will not appear in the New Jersey Symphony's Dvorák Festival in January because his wife is seriously ill, the Newark Star-Ledger reports.
		The series was planned by Macal and was intended to serve as his farewell appearance.
		Macal, a Dvorák specialist, served as the NJSO's music director for nine years, stepping down last year; he is now chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=22318 (261 words)

	Richard Danielpour: Celestial Night \| Richard Danielpour, Zdenek Macal, ... \| Great Classical CD
		I first heard "Celestial Night" performed by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under the direction of guest conductor Zdenek Macal with the composer in attendance.
		Macal had originally commissioned the work as a companion piece for "Symphony Fantasique" - which was also on the ASO's program that evening.
		Zdenek Macal leads the Philharmonia Orchestra in a powerful rendition of "Celestial Night" on this recording.
	www.this-is-great.com /info/xbfffffxibxgn (219 words)

	Saint Louis Symphony
		Zdenek Macal is renowned in the world of classical music for his masterful interpretations and graceful conducting style.
		Maestro Macal has also conducted at the Prague National Theater, the Smetana Theater, the Brno Opera, and the opera houses of Cologne, Geneva, Turin and Bologna.
		Maestro Macal’s most recent appearance with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra was in April 2001.
	www.slso.org /0203notes/sub24.htm (2141 words)

	American Symphony Orchestra League::SYMPHONY
		Zdenek Macal, who led the orchestra for ten years, stepped down as music director last May-although he is now music director emeritus and will return for several concerts over the next two seasons.
		Within a year, Newark cardiologist Victor Parsonnet became chairman of the board, Lawrence Tamburri joined the orchestra as executive director from the Richmond Symphony, and Zdenek Macal, who had been at the helm of the Milwaukee Symphony, was hired as music director.
		When management learned that Macal would not opt to renew his contract, set to expire in 2004, an artistic leadership committee was formed to discuss how to proceed.
	www.symphony.org /news/room/02sojersey.shtml (3420 words)

	classical music - andante - zdenek macal named czech philharmonic's chief conductor
		Zdenek Macal, who is stepping down as director of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, has been named chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic, succeeding Vladimir Ashkenazy, The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J. reports.
		Macal, who left then-Communist Czechoslovakia after the 1968 Soviet invasion, will replace Ashkenazy in 2003.
		The Star-Ledger notes that although Macal has drawn praise during his 30 years in the U.S., particularly for his orchestra-building work in Milwaukee and New Jersey, his goal of landing a major conducting post has eluded him until now.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=16316 (330 words)

	AP Worldstream : Czech-born Zdenek Macal returns to native land after a busy decade with New Jersey Symphony Orchestra ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Start / A / AP Worldstream / May 17, 2002 / Czech-born Zdenek Macal returns to native land after a busy decade with New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
		Macal, 66, who is leaving to become chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic.
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	Popular Music : Dvorák: Requiem/Symphony 9 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mr Macal is able to make the New Jersey Symphony sounds Slavic with the strong and clear rythmic patterns without loosing the flexibility in the almost gospel part "quia pius es".
		As other reviewers on this page note, Zdenek Macal gives us a wonderfully idiomatic Dvorak Requiem--and a pretty wonderful Ninth Symphony, though most listeners will have other (maybe many other!) recordings of this warhorse that they are happy with.
		I don't know that Macal makes the New Jersey Symphony sound especially Czech; in fact, in the symphony, I'm glad for a slight New World brashness in their playing.
	www.antivirusworld.com /cgi-bin/store/store.pl/item_id/B00004SZU1/search_type/AsinSearch/locale/us (363 words)

	Lawrence Budmen is impressed by Zdenek Macal and the New World Symphony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lawrence Budmen is impressed by Zdenek Macal and the New World Symphony
		In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a wave of cultural nationalism swept through the lands of Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia.
		The music of this grandly romantic composer took center stage on 28 March 2004 at the Lincoln Theater in Miami Beach, Florida, USA when the New World Symphony presented orchestral works 'In the Czech Style' under the baton of the great Czech conductor Zdenek Macal.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2004/04/macal1.htm (375 words)

	RedLudwig.com: Music News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Macal, who is currently the music director of the New Jersey Symphony, will succeed Vladimir Ashkenazy, who has been with the orchestra since 1998.
		Macal initially made his name when he won the International Conducting Competition in Besancon, France in 1965, and the 1966 Dmitri Mitropoulos Competition in New York.
		Macal is scheduled to take over from Ashkenazy at the start of the 2003-2004 season.
	www.redludwig.com /news/archive/032002.html (815 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		The first two movements proceed in an almost gingerly fashion, with the funeral march sounding more like a leisurely stroll and the volatile second movement displaying little of the ferocity Bernstein regularly brought to it.
		Macal sets a surprisingly casual pace for the great central scherzo, and it's here that the Czech Philharmonic really struts its stuff, with gorgeous wind playing and those marvelous mellow-toned horns featured prominently throughout.
		Following a slow, tenderly phrased and nicely proportioned Adagietto, Macal caps off the reading with a brisk and spirited finale.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=7486 (175 words)

	Zdenek Macal: a whirlwind about to hit the Czech Philharmonic - 10-02-2003 - Radio Prague
		Zdenek Macal: a whirlwind about to hit the Czech Philharmonic
		Zdenek Macal is one of the most celebrated Czech conductors, and for the next three seasons he will be succeeding Vladimir Ashkenazy as chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic.
		During a long career, much of it spent in the United States, the 66-year-old Zdenek Macal has conducted many of the world's great orchestras, and his achievements with the Milwaukee and New Jersey Symphony Orchestras have been a classic American success story.
	www.radio.cz /en/article/37374 (906 words)

	AVguide.com: Film/Music Recommendations: Music Reviews
		But there are moments of unstable intonation that keep the orchestra from being in the highest echelon.
		Zdenek Macal has turned in many excellent recorded performances in his distinguished career.
		His performance is straightforward, if lacking the imagination and ear for orchestral color that Maazel, Reiner, Ormandy, and Muti exhibit in their readings.
	www.avguide.com /film_music/music/multichannel/jan_01.jsp (661 words)

	Berliner Festspiele: Musikfest Berlin, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra - Zdenek Macal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Long before Leoš Janácek conquered the world’s stages with his operas, Antonín Dvorák had liberated Czech music from the narrow confinement of the Czech national school, an opening that was brought about chiefly by the success of Dvorák’s major works for choir and orchestra.
		Also his interpretation of the traditional liturgical chant of the “Stabat Mater” – a version that shows a more pronounced tendency toward the operatic and symphonic rather than the oratorio – became an immediate international success.
		The piece will be conducted by the chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonics, Zdenek Macal – now returned from a prolonged sojourn in the US – with a cast that promises an outstanding performance.
	www.berlinerfestspiele.de /en/aktuell/festivals/05_musikfest_berlin/mfb_05_programm/mfb_05_ProgrammlisteDetailSeite_2040.php (124 words)

	Concert - Czech Spirit (5/2004)
		Macal made the score flow ever forward with a sense of musical inevitability.
		Macal's wonderfully slow, flexible manner with the third subject recalled the classic recorded accounts by Bernstein and Tallich.
		Macal drew a superb performance from the entire ensemble.
	www.lawrencebudmen.com /reviews_czech_spirit.html (831 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Zdenek Macal, who commissioned Toward The Splendid City, conducts with authority and insight.
		All of the rhythms are tight and accurate; Macal's conceptualization is assured and on the mark.
		The orchestra plays with both precision and passion; you have the feeling that every note is just as it should be.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=1002 (286 words)

	Tragedy & Comedy in Mozart's Concertos
		Swann played with Macal for the first time in Venice in 1977 in a Chopin concerto, and they have performed together in various locations since.
		Be that devotion to efficiency as it may, in some circles Zdenek Macal has demonstrated that he's not interested in categorizing Swann as a player with limited horizons.
		From his past record with Swann, it is clear that Macal willingly gives him an opportunity to indulge his interest in many kinds of music -- even with two adjacent Mozart concertos that are terribly different.
	www.princetoninfo.com /199807/80708p05.html (1779 words)

	Beethoven, Symphony No 6 in F Major. Op. 68 DVD-A/V reviewed on AudioRevolution.com
		This disc continues the AIX tradition of offering as many value-added features as you can possibly imagine, resulting in a uniquely satisfying – and uniquely good value-for-money – overall result.
		Here we have the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra conducted by their musical director Zdenek Macal, recorded in their own Performing Arts Center in Newark, NJ.
		The AIX approach to recording involves using the highest-quality gear the company can lay their hands on to record at 24-bit, 96 kHz sampling, which is what DVD-Audio was made for.
	www.audiorevolution.com /music/revs/beethovenaix.shtml (927 words)

	Music : Peer Gynt Suite/Holberg Suite/Piano Concerto : reviews
		Piano Concerto Op.16: Allegro Molto Moderato - Zdenek Macal, The Philharmonia Orchestra
		Piano Concerto Op.16: Adagio - Zdenek Macal, The Philharmonia Orchestra
		Piano Concerto Op.16: Allegro Moderato Molto E Marcato - Zdenek Macal, The Philharmonia Orchestra
	www.centralreview.com /B00000FC8O/Peer_Gynt_SuiteHolberg_SuitePiano_Concerto.html (107 words)

	ICM - International Creative Management, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Currently Music Director Emeritus of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (having served as Music Director from 1993 to 2002), Maestro Macal significantly built the orchestra's reputation through the introduction of several highly acclaimed series, including the summer Amadeus Festival, as well as an exclusive recording contract with Delos International.
		Born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, Zdenek Macal is an American citizen.
		Maestro Macal's previous positions include music directorships of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Cologne Radio Symphony and the Radio Orchestra of Hannover.
	www.icmtalent.com /musperf/profiles/60146.html (400 words)

	Barber-isms
		The pulsing narrative of the opening movement is built around a grand melody of lilting graciousness and firm structure that lingers in your ears for days.
		And what a sublimely confident, richly explored reading was rendered by violinist Pamela Frank, accompanied by the Orchestra under the steady baton of Zdenek Macal, the music director of the New Jersey Symphony.
		It's a refreshing pleasure to hear a serious young artist play beautiful music with intelligence and tonal splendor, without recourse to histrionic stage mannerisms, unusual hair cuts, glitzy clothes or pretentious name changes.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/050798/musicreviews2.shtml (541 words)

	Gracenote: Albums - Dvorak Stabat Mater,Biblical Songs(CD2)
		Artist Info : Zdenek Macal, New Jersey SO
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	www.gracenote.com /xm/pcd/genclassical/d0d294607eb6fa8af6293608aafe71fb.html (92 words)

	'Smetana - Ma Vlast' by Bedrich Smetana from The Portsmouth Chorus.
		When buying Ma Vlast you need to think carefully about what the most important aspect of the work is for you: the balance of the recording, the virtuousity of the orchestra, or maybe the Czech character of "My Country".
		Macal is Czech, but the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra is not.
		That doesn't stop the characteristic rhythms, to illustrate the pastoral scenes, or the Slavic dances, coming through from Macal's direction, but it is not as intense as Kubelik's live Prague Spring Festival Performance.
	www.theportsmouthchorus.com /music-cd/B000003CXE (293 words)

	Faculty in Music @ Brandeis
		He has also served as guest conductor for the Griffin Ensemble, Boston, in music of Mario Davidovsky and Allen Anderson (premiere) and for the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra.
		Olesen has prepared choruses for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin, Sir Alexander Gibson, and Zdenek Macal, for the Boston Philharmonic under Benjamin Zander, and for the Prague Symphony Orchestra under Jiri Belohavek.
		He has served as Resident Conductor for the Livonia (Michigan) Youth Orchestra and the University of Michigan Youth Orchestra.
	www.brandeis.edu /departments/music/faculty/oles.html (280 words)

	Andrew Megill is recognized as one of the leading choral conductors of his generation, known for his passionate ...
		Andrew Megill is recognized as one of the leading choral conductors of his generation, known for his passionate artistry and unusually wide-ranging repertoire, extending from Renaissance music to newly commissioned works.
		He has prepared choruses for the American Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, the Spoleto Festival Orchestra, and the Berkshire Opera for conductors including Zdenek Macal, Joseph Flummerfelt, Richard Bradshaw, Leon Botstein, Spiros Argiris, Joel Revzen, and Julius Rudel.
		Since 1989, he has served as artistic director of Fuma Sacra, which currently serves as ensemble-in-residence at Westminster and is recognized as one of America's leading professional ensembles specializing in Renaissance and Baroque vocal music.
	www.ensemble.org /assoc/ttccda/Articles/MegillBio.htm (442 words)

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