I had the great joy to do my first ever live edition of Sticky Notes last month with the Aalborg Symphony in Denmark. For this concert, I chose a piece that is extremely close to my heart, Dvorak's New World Symphony. The story of the New World Symphony is a fascinating one. The symphony was the result of an extraordinary series of events, with Dvorak coming to America in 1892, meeting the great singer Harry Burleigh, and falling in love with a totally new, to him, genre of music: Black American and Native American folk music. Listening to Burleigh and other voices around America, Dvorak had discovered a new “American” sound for his music, and even though he would end up staying in the US for just three years, in that time he composed two of his most popular pieces, the American String Quartet, and the New World Symphony
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Beethoven String Quartet, Op. 132, Part 2
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Nielsen Symphony No. 4, "Inextinguishable"
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Elgar Cello Concerto
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Mozart Symphony No. 38, "Prague"
Jean-Louis Duport Cello Concerto No. 4
Brahms B Major Piano Trio
Sibelius Violin Concerto
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Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8
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All things Piano with Marc-André Hamelin
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
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My Top 25 Favorite Moments in Classical Music (Part 1)
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