Name: A New World Odyssey: Adams, Adès, Dvořák
Start: 2024-11-16T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-11-17T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Jacobs Music Center

Admin

San Diego Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Elena Schwarz

Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Leila Josefowicz

Violin

A New World Odyssey: Adams, Adès, Dvořák

San Diego

United States

Jacobs Music Center

A New World Odyssey: Adams, Adès, Dvořák: The Chairman Dances Adams (+2 More)

Public

Concert

The Chairman Dances

Violin Concerto 'Concentric Paths'

Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, op. 95 B. 178

Samrat Sen

Approved

Elena Schwarz takes the podium to lead the Symphony in a program of modern masterworks by John Adams and Thomas Adès and one of Western classical music’s most beloved and recognizable works: Dvořák's Symphony No. 9. Adams composed The Chairman Dances while working on his opera Nixon in China inspired by an image of Mao Tse-Tung dancing the foxtrot. A specialist in the works of living composers, Leila Josefowicz joins the Symphony for Adès’ modern masterpiece Concentric Paths, co-commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic by the composer who also has many ties to – and a strong history with – California. Written while he was living in the United States, Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 drew inspiration from African-American spirituals introduced to him by his then-student, the great pioneer of American music, composer Harry T. Burleigh.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble