It’s right up there with Copland’s Appalachian Spring, Grofé’s Grand Canyon Suite and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. His New World Symphony ranks right up there as some of the greatest symphonic music ever to be composed on this side of the Atlantic. His mission was to import a little of that Old World excellence to our New World. The Czech composer had been recruited to our (American) National Conservatory of Music in 1892. 9-and its premiere performance in New York, in 1893. The oboe adagio in the slow second movement fully met my expectations, after having listened intently to the piece probably thirty or forty times as offered by the New York Philharmonic on youtube.Īnd those trombones in the final cadence did not fail to summon a tear from my eyes, as their vibrantly forthright sounding forth renewed my confidence in human excellence.ĭuring the intermission I read in the program notes about Dvořák’s composition of that symphony-his No. So I thanked her for making it possible for me to hear Antonín Dvořák’s New World Symphony, in live performance, before I pass into eternity.Īnd I must say that the Charlotte Symphony’s treatment of it, under the guest conducting hand of Ilyich Rivas, was masterful-very tender and very strong. Pat makes all the arrangements, you see, for our concerts and outings and travels and every other adventure we’ve had in the last forty years. That’s what I told Pat, my wife, immediately as we stood up to join a standing ovation for the Charlotte Symphony last night.
I’m glad I got to hear that before I die.
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