Toledo Symphony: New Year, New World
January 15, 2022 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle | 8 p.m.
PROMEDICA MASTERWORKS SERIES: NEW YEAR, NEW WORLD
Janinah Burnett, soprano
George Walker: Folk Songs for Orchestra
Samuel Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”
Dvořák’s Symphony from the New World paints a musical landscape inspired by the African-American and Native-American melodies that make up our cultural fabric. Together with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer George Walker’s Folk Songs for Orchestra and Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, this program highlights the richness of America’s musical legacy.