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Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"—written during the composer's travels in the U.S. and influenced by African-American spirituals and Native American melodies—is given contemporary context as it's presented between two new, distinctly American works, one featuring a chorus comprising individuals currently or formerly experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity.

James Lee III’s Amer’ican, commissioned by the DSO and receiving its world premiere, was written to complement and challenge Dvořák's ideas about the "New World." Gabriel Kahane’s modern oratorio emergency shelter intake form is a musical investigation of homelessness in America, performed with the Cass Ambassadors, a choral col­lective of formerly homeless men who remain connected to the mission of Cass Community Social Services in Midtown Detroit, plus present and former residents of the Mariners Inn shelter and treatment center.