thu14nov19:30ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK AND LAURIE ANDERSON / FBD II / STANDING + TICKETSANTONÍN DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 6 in D major
LAURIE ANDERSON Songs for Amelia Earhart; first Czech performance
19:30 Besední dům

Time

(Thursday) 19:30

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ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK

Symphony No. 6 in D major, Op. 60

LAURIE ANDERSON

Songs for Amelia Earhart; first Czech performance

Laurie Anderson voice

Rubin Kodheli cello

Brno Philharmonic

conductor Dennis Russell Davies

 

  • Laurie Anderson, the distinctive American artist (among other works, she wrote the hit O Superman in 1981, which rose to number two in the UK Singles Chart) and recent Grammy awardee for her composition for the Kronos Quartet, performs her opus commissioned by Dennis Russell Davies ● The lyrics of this meditative work are by Amelia Earhart, an American aviator who was the first woman to cross the Atlantic (1928) and who disappeared without a trace during her flight over the Pacific in 1937 ● Dvořák’s Sixth Symphony, his first to be published by Simrock in Berlin, was composed in 1880 on the request of the chief conductor of the Wiener Philharmoniker, Hans Richter

 

Download the program here

Cast of the orchestra here

Location

Besední dům

Komenského náměstí 534/8, Brno

Besední důmKomenského náměstí 534/8, Brno