On the road

Munich, May 2007

Ivan Moravec signs an autograph for an appreciative concertgoer after the May 2007 Munich recital. (Photo courtesy of Iva Emmerovi)

Philadelphia, March 2005

Korean piano student Sang Mi Chung, posing with Ivan Moravec after his 2005 recital in Philadelphia. (Photo courtesy of Sang Mi Chung)

Amsterdam, Spring 2004

Ivan's daugher Iva traveled with Moravec on a tour in the Spring of 2004, and sent us these snapshots from Amsterdam.

Slavka Pechocova, young Czech pianist, pauses by a poster of her former teacher.

Iva between friends Slavka and Marketa, in front of the Concertgebouw.

Fontainebleau, Summer 2002

The Goodfriends joined the Moravecs in France in the Summer of 2002, and Carol sent back a postcard and some fine snapshots of her own. The postcard had this note:

We got here yesterday and heard Ivan working on the piano in the --> room. [indicating the arrow drawn on the postcard - lol.]

1A.M now. Ivan is delighted after tonight's performance. Ads all over town: “Recitale exceptionelle”...Fontainebleau sold out! The concert was spectacular: many important French & Czech people there: a Czech festival..

...the hall had a lovely sound, if quite live, after it was filled with people. What I had not known, but experienced with great pleasure, was that following a performance, when the audience is especially happy, they burst into a stadium like rhythmic applause. Where this practice started I have no idea, but it is quite astonishing to an American hearing it for the first time.