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Saturday, December 6 • 3-5 pm • The Brooklyn Museum
Led by Music Director Dorothy Savitch, the Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra returns to the Brooklyn Museum’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium for a special performance of Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony no. 9, “From the New World,” and William Schuman’s “New England Triptych”.
Dvořák’s 9th Symphony, “From the New World,” was written in 1893 when Dvořák was director of the National Conservatory of Music of America here in New York City. Inspired by music of Black and Indigenous Americans, and suffused with harmonies and rhythms of Dvořák’s native Bohemia, the symphony is one of the most performed and most beloved of all orchestral works.
William Schuman’s “New England Triptych” (1956) draws its inspiration from three choral works of the 18th-century composer William Billings, evoking the rugged patriotic atmosphere of America’s Revolutionary period.
Tickets include admission to the Brooklyn Museum, and all ages are welcome. If you are a museum member, please enter your code at checkout.