Next Tuesday 25 April at 19.30, the Sociedad de Conciertos La Filarmónica presents the violinist Pinchas Zukerman and Antonín Dvořák’s New World Symphony at the Symphonic Hall of the Auditorio Nacional de Música.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the United States was a country of welcome and opportunity. In 1892, Antonín Dvořák emigrated to New York to direct the American National Conservatory of Music. His stay in the country inspired him to write this beautiful work which would make him famous, and which was premiered in the symbolic Carnegie Hall.
The first part of the concert will feature the legendary violinist Pinchas Zukerman (pictured) performing Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major op. 61. Pinchas, like Dvořák, also emigrated to New York, building at Carnegie Hall a very important part of his career. Zukerman grew up and was educated in New York, where he met his friends Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Jacqueline du Pré, Zubin Mehta and Daniel Barenboim. Together, they revolutionised Carnegie Hall and New York musically. Pinchas, the youngest of that generation, is the heir to the most important violin tradition in history. Today, in splendid maturity, each of his performances becomes a legacy.
Under the baton of conductor Tatsuya Shimono, Penderecki’s Chaconne in memoriam Giovanni Paolo II completes the concert programme. Tickets can be purchased here.
