ABOUT THIS EVENT
Soprano Janai Brugger joins Music Director Kwamé Ryan and the Orchestra for works exploring themes of home, nostalgia, and longing, including "The Trees on the Mountain" from Floyd's Susannah and Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915. The evening culminates with Dvořák's "New World" Symphony. Composed during his time in the United States, this symphony blends elements of his Czech heritage with American musical influences, capturing the excitement of a new world while reflecting his deep yearning for home, particularly through the moving melody, later turned into the popular song, "Goin' Home."
Program
WALKER Lyric for Strings
FLOYD "The Trees on the Mountain" from Susannah
STRAVINSKY "No Word from Tom" from The Rake's Progress
BARBER Knoxville: Summer of 1915
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"
FLOYD "The Trees on the Mountain" from Susannah
STRAVINSKY "No Word from Tom" from The Rake's Progress
BARBER Knoxville: Summer of 1915
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"
Meet the Artists
Knight Theater
This concert is made possible in part by the generous support of Maria & John Huson
