New Jersey Symphony: Dvoraks New World Symphony
About This Event
The New Jersey Symphony performs Antonín Dvořák’s New World Symphony at NJPAC. Written by a Czech composer who fused Moravian and Bohemian folk elements with the Romantic symphonic tradition, the work is presented here by a professional ensemble whose repertoire spans classical and contemporary music, offering a clear hearing of how folk rhythms and symphonic form interact.
About Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World'(symphony)
Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World,” was written during his New York years in the 1890s, when he led the National Conservatory and argued that American concert music should grow from Black and Indigenous traditions as well as European craft. The symphony channels that idea through a Bohemian composer’s ear, folding folk-like turns into a large, four-movement design. At David Geffen Hall, Gustavo Gimeno places it beside Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin, with Hélène Grimaud as piano soloist, tracing a New York line between symphonic form and American vernacular. One can hear how the “New World” is less a postcard than a debate about identity.
About the Artists
New Jersey Symphony
The New Jersey Symphony is a professional orchestra based in New Jersey, known for performing a wide range of classical and contemporary music.
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Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic era nationalist example of his predecessor Bedřich Smetana.