Abu Dhabi Classics Academy
Pre-Concert Talk: Antonín Dvorák and the New World
FR 05 MAR 10:
Pre-Concert Talk with Dr. Ronald Perlwitz, Université Paris-Sorbonne Abu Dhabi
6.00 pm, Al Ain / Al Jahili Fort
Schedule
Al Ain Classics Festival presents:Symphonic Masterworks in Al Jahili: From the New World (C15 / AAC)
Young British star-conductor Daniel Harding leads the superb Mahler Chamber Orchestra in a programme of three “New World” favourites: Bernstein’s Candide Overture, Gershwin’s jazzy Rhapsody in Blue, performed by the extraordinary Turkish piano virtuoso Fazil Say, and Dvořák’s moving symphonic tribute to the music and people of America, written while the great Czech composer was living in New York.
FR 05 MAR 10
8:00pm, Al Jahili Fort in the unique oasis city Al Ain
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Daniel Harding, conductor
Fazil Say, piano
Leonard Bernstein, Overture “Candide”
George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue
Antonin Dvořák, Symphony No. 9 “New World”
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