DAWSON & BEETHOVEN
DAWSON & BEETHOVEN
Friday, December 10—Sunday, December 12, 2021
William Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony features three themes taken from melodies he had heard since childhood, having learned them at his mother's knee. Premiered in 1934 at Carnegie Hall, it was met with audience ovations and critical acclaim. Thomas Wilkins returns to lead a program including Dawson’s often overlooked masterpiece, and Beethoven’s only violin concerto.
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Thomas Wilkins
conductor
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Vadim Gluzman
violin
Thomas Wilkins
conductor
Vadim Gluzman
violin
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“ This was the art that concealed art, the tone, the phrasing, the expressive gestures – especially in the first-movement cadenza, so caressingly rhetorical and not without humour – utterly at the service of the music. ”
—Limelight (of Vadim Gluzman)
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