Name: Dvořák’s New World Symphony
Start: 2023-11-23T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-11-23T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Southbank Centre

Organization

Direction d'orchestre

Jordan de Souza

Chanteur

Julia Bullock

Voice

Soprano

Bess

Orchestra

Philharmonia Orchestra

Royal Festival Hall London

Southbank Centre

Soloist

Dvořák’s New World Symphony

Londres

Royaume-Uni

Royal Festival Hall

Julia Bullock: Poster

Public

Symphony No. 1 in A-flat Major ("Afro-American")

Somebody from Somewhere

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Soon

Symphonie n° 9 en mi mineur, op. 95 ("Du Nouveau Monde"), B. 178

Porgy et Bess

Songs of the Season

Valide

Accordionist

Instrument

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Theorbist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da Gambist

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Acteur

Autre

Choeur

Chorus Director

Chorégraphie

Coach vocal

Coiffure

Compositeur

Costumes

Danse

Diffusion

Direction de choeur

Dramaturgie

Décors

En charge de la production

Extra

Illustrator

Livret

Lumières

Maquillage

Mise en scène

Orchestra Operations

Orchestre

Photographer

Poet

Prof

Répétiteur

Stage Manager

Traduction

Video

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Ténor

Baryton

Baryton-basse

Contralto

Basse

Contre-ténor

Mezzo-soprano

Alto

Continuo

Rôle muet

Rôle parlant

Voix d'enfant

We explores the music of the Harlem Renaissance with compelling American soprano Julia Bullock. Then Dvořák’s ever-popular ‘New World’ symphony brings our series Let Freedom Ring to a close.

It’s a fitting finale for this series exploring American music. Inspired by the spirituals and folk music Dvořák heard while he was working in New York in the 1890s, it may well be the most popular symphony composed in America.

But for the most popular symphony composed by an American, we must look to William Grant Still, a prolific and trailblazing Black composer and a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 30s. His First Symphony is an audience favourite in the US, but not often programmed by British orchestras. Its four short movements, ‘Longings’, ‘Sorrows’, ‘Humor’, and ‘Aspirations’, are threaded through with the sounds of the Blues, ragtime and jazz, and it culminates in a triumphant hymn of hope.

Julia Bullock is one of our Featured Artists this season. Known for her intense, authentic performances and commanding stage presence, she is also an eloquent advocate for equity and inclusion in the arts.

She sings two settings by Margaret Bonds of poems by Langston Hughes – both composer and writer were leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance. Bonds discovered Hughes’ poetry while at university and was inspired to continue her studies in the face of terrible racism, and later she and Hughes became lifelong friends. Between the Bonds songs are three Gershwin classics, including the poignant lullaby from Porgy and Bess (see our 9 November concert), ‘Summertime’.

English

Dvořák’s New World Symphony by Still, W. G., Gershwin, Bonds, Dvořák, jeu. 23 nov. 2023, Du (2023/2023), Chef d'orchestre Jordan de Souza, Southbank Centre, Londres, Royaume-Uni

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