Virginia Symphony Orchestra

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Program

Artist Biographies

Program Notes

Dvořák’s New World Symphony + Gil & Orli Shaham

Co-Presented with CNU's Ferguson Center for the Arts

Program

Eric Jacobsen, conductor

Gil Shaham, violin

Orli Shaham, piano

Three Dance Episodes from On the Town

Leonard Bernstein

I. Dance of the Great Lover

II. Pas de Deux

III. Times Square Ballet

Double Concerto for Violin and Piano

Reena Esmail

II.

III.

Gil Shaham, violin

Orli Shaham, piano

-- intermission --

"Ashokan Farwell" from Ken Burns's The Civil War

Jay Ungar/ Calvin Custer

Symphony No. 9 in E minor, op. 95 "From the New World"

Antonín Dvořák

I. Adagio - Allegro molto

II. Largo

III. Scherzo: Molto vivace

IV. Finale: Allegro con fuoco

Artist Biographies

Eric Jacobsen

Conductor, VSO Music Director The Macon & Joan Brock Chair

Program Notes

Three Dance Episodes from On the Town

Leonard Bernstein

Double Concerto for Violin & Piano

Reena Esmail

Ashokan Farewell

Jay Ungar

Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, “From the New World”

Antonín Dvořák

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