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

Organization

Conductor

Jordan de Souza

Singer

Julia Bullock

Voice

Soprano

Bess

Orchestra

Philharmonia Orchestra

Royal Festival Hall London

Southbank Centre

Soloist

Dvořák’s New World Symphony

London

United Kingdom

Royal Festival Hall

Julia Bullock: Poster

Public

Afro-American Symphony

Somebody from Somewhere

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Soon

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

Porgy and Bess

Songs of the Season

Approved

South Bank Centre

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

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 gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Stage director

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Mezzo-soprano

Contralto

Tenor

Countertenor

Baritone

Bass

Bass-baritone

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

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, 周四 23 11月 2023, 从 (2023/2023), 导体 Jordan de Souza, South Bank Centre, London, United Kingdom

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