BNY Classics: Dvorák’s New World

Name: BNY Classics: Dvorák’s New World
Start: 2025-02-16T14:30:00-05:00
Location: 600 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA

Schedule

Sun, 16 Feb, 2025 at 02:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

600 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA | Pittsburgh, PA

- The Program -
CARLOS SIMON: Four Black American Dances [PSO Premiere]
SAINT-SAËNS: Violin Concerto No. 3
DVORÁK: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"

- Performances -
Friday, February 14: 7:30 PM
Saturday, February 15: 7:30 PM
Sunday, February 16: 2:30 PM

- Featuring -
Manfred Honeck, conductor
María Dueñas, violin

- About this Performance -
Dvorak traveled to America in the 1890s, and this wild new country thrilled him. He admired the beauty of African American spirituals and was fascinated by Native American traditions. When describing his “New World” symphony, he said, “I tried to write only in the spirit of those national American melodies,” but his Ninth is clearly an expression of both the Old World and the new. Alongside Dvořák’s familiar symphony, violin phenom María Dueñas returns to perform Saint-Saëns, plus a PSO premiere Simon that puts dance at the heart of connection.

- Symphony Starter -
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