Dvorak in Prague: A Concert

The New Westminster Symphony’s first concert of 2024
celebrates the famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak with a selection of a
number of his greatest compositions. First up is the stirring Carnival
Overture; the most famous of his overtures.  This will be followed by two
compositions – Humoresque in G-Flat major Op.101 No. 7 and Slavonic Dance in E
minor Op.72. No.2 -which were specially arranged by Czech-Canadian composer
Oskar Morawetz so that cellist Yo-Yo Ma and violinist Itzhak Perlman could
perform together at the 100^th anniversary concert commemorating
Dvorak’s New World Symphony on December 16^th 1993 in Prague. The
first half of the concert will conclude with another of his famous dances,
Slavonic Dance in G minor Op. 46 No. 8. After a brief intermission the
orchestra will perform what is considered to be one of the most popular
symphonies ever composed  Dvorak’s magnificent Symphony No. 9 in E minor
“From the New World”. So popular is it that Astronaut Neil Armstrong took a
tape recording of the New World Symphony along during the Apollo 11 mission;
the first Moon landing in 1969.