It also produced some of his best-loved pieces including, of course,įrom the New World and his twelfth string quartet, ‘American’, and it was a string orchestra arrangement of this work that Richard Tognetti chose for the close of the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s season.įor his US cultural tour Tognetti chose works by three living and three dead composers.īryce Dessner, guitarist and founding member of the rock band The National, taps into his Jewish heritage for his workĪheym, Yiddish for “homeward”, dedicated to his grandmother Sara who would tell him stories of how the family emigrated from Russia and Poland. Dvořák’s three-year stint in the United States during the 1890s had a huge impact on that young nation’s musical heritage, inspiring generations of composers to write for the concert halls and opera houses.
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