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Kubelik in Prague

After an absence of 42 years, Rafael Kubelik returned to Czechoslovakia to conduct the CzechPhilharmonic Orchestra in the two performances of Bedrich Smetana's symphonic cycle ''Ma Vlast'' (''My Country'') that opened 1990 Prague Spring Festival.


That grand patriotic cycle of six related tone poems (among which No. 2 is the famous ''Moldau''), the traditional opening work for the ''Prague Spring,'' is music whose character makes it uniquely suitable for occasions of national jubilation or rededication. It fell to Mr. Kubelik to preside over two such events 45 years apart.

When Prague was liberated at the end of World War II, the first concert given there was a performance of ''Ma Vlast'' he conducted in Wenceslas Square, with all the city's orchestras combined. Mr. Kubelik's appearance in year 1990 seemed to set the seal on all that had happened in his homeland since late fall of 1989.

Mr. Kubelik left his homeland in Czechoslovakia at the time of the Communist takeover in 1948 and vowed not to return until that situation changed; by the time it did change, he had given up conducting.