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Great Symphonies Close Up with Charles Hazlewood Presented by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and the National Concert Hall Takes place as part of FORTE! The RTÉ NSO’s Musical Discovery Programme
Tuesday 16 September / Concert 1.05pm
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Dvorák
Charles Hazlewood
Symphony No. 9, From the New World [38’]
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conductor/presenter
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The memorable melodies of Dvorák’s ninth, last and most popular symphony owe a considerable debt to the American-Negro spirituals and plantation songs he discovered on his travels in the ‘New World’. But, finding himself far from home, the nostalgic pull of his native Bohemia can be clearly felt in a brilliantly orchestrated masterpiece that sounds authentically American and Czech.
Charles Hazlewood
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Charles Hazlewood is a man on a mission: to make the masterpieces of classical music accessible and understandable to the widest possible audience. In this hour-long event taking place as part of a revealing ear-opening series examining how five composers created five legendary symphonies, he will discuss, explore and conduct excerpts from the ‘New World’ symphony before a full performance of the work.
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