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Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony Billy Childs’ Saxophone Concerto

Name: Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony Billy Childs’ Saxophone Concerto
Start: 2024-04-12Tnull
Location: California Center for the Arts

National Symphony Orchestra

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Experience the sweeping drama of Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony, inspired by the African American and indigenous music Dvořák encountered during his time in America. It has remained one of the most popular symphonies of all time, even heard in space during Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 lunar spaceflight—a national goal set by President John F. Kennedy. Conductor Xian Zhang opens the concert with works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Billy Childs.

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Antonín Dvořák - Symphony No. 9 (From the New World)

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