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Dvořák’s Eighth: Dvořák and Chopin

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Dates and Times for this Past Event

  • Sunday, May 26, 2024  2pm
  • Saturday, May 25, 2024  7:30pm
  • Friday, May 24, 2024  7:30pm

Location

Bass Performance Hall
525 Commerce Street

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Details

While writing his masterful eighth symphony, Czech Dvořák told a friend that “melodies simply pour out of me.” Indeed, this symphony is perhaps Dvořák’s most melodic, from the rhapsodic first movement to the electrifying finale. Czech conductor Tomáš Netopil has paired the symphony with one of Dvořák’s lively Slavonic Dances, originally composed as piano duets to earn some cash early on in his career. Finally, pianist Lukáš Vondráček takes to the stage for Czech-tutored composer Chopin’s first piano concerto, written at the tender age of 20.