6th symphony concert

Arturo Márquez DANZÒN No. 2 Wynton Marsalis Concerto for trumpet and orchestra Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 9 in E minor op. 95 FROM THE NEW WORLD Trumpeter Alison Balsom described the composition by Wynton Marsalis as the "most important trumpet concerto of the last 200 years" after its premiere in the UK in spring 2024. Since the famous concerto by Johann Nepomuk Hummel, no composition has been written that uses the technical and playing possibilities of the trumpet in such a varied yet accessible way as the concerto by legendary jazz trumpeter Marsalis. The piece begins with an archaic-sounding mammoth scream and then works its way swinging through various musical styles from classical music and jazz. An exciting work of the 21st century that processes the tonal diversity of the 20th century like a modern cantus firmus. During his three-year stay in the USA as director of the National Conservatory of Music of America, Antonín Dvořák heard the spirituals of enslaved blacks and the music of indigenous American musicians for the first time. He recognized a great similarity in both musical styles and was inspired by them and by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem THE SONG OF HIAWATHA (a co-founder of the Iroquois Confederacy). Dvořák thematically processed these experiences in his 9th Symphony, creating a dreamlike work that would rightly become his greatest success. It offers us hopeful moments of thoughts of a new world full of possibilities and cultural diversity.