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Yannick Leads Mahler & Dawson

Name: Yannick Leads Mahler & Dawson
Start: 2026-03-26T19:00:00
Location: Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Curtis Institute of Music

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Join Curtis Symphony Orchestra and Grammy award winner Yannick Nézet-Séguin for an evening of powerful musical storytelling. The program features William L. Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony, a groundbreaking 1934 masterpiece that blends African American spirituals with classical symphonic traditions. Premiered by Leopold Stokowski and The Philadelphia Orchestra, the work is celebrated for its stirring melodies and rhythmic vitality.

Program

William Dawson - Negro Folk Symphony

Gustav Mahler - Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Composer

Richard Wagner - Rienzi Overture

Participants

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Conductor

Curtis Institute of Music

Producer

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1 dates (26 Mar - 26 Mar)