Events

This program features music by three of the world’s most beloved composers: Brahms, Mozart, and Dvořák. Andrew Litton, the GRAMMY Award-winning Music Director of the New York City Ballet, will return to Charleston to conduct. Charles Messersmith, Principal Clarinet, will take the stage as soloist for Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto. Plus, the Charleston Symphony Chorus will join the orchestra for Johannes Brahms’s “Song of Destiny.”

Bohemian composer Antonín Dvořák spent three years at the helm of the National Conservatory of Music in New York City, which was a far cry from his home in the Bohemia region of Europe. The homesick Dvořák found familiarity within the folk music of America, and the “New World” Symphony thus became a melting pot of sounds with unmistakable provincial Czech influence and distinctly American inspiration.

Brahms’s divine, moody “Song of Destiny” and Mozart’s exceptional Clarinet Concerto are perfect preludes to Dvořák’s fondness for lush symphonic sounds.

PROGRAM

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Schicksalslied, Op. 54 (Song of Destiny)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622

INTERMISSION

Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 (From the New World)

ARTISTS

Andrew Litton, Conductor
Charles Messersmith, Clarinet
CSO Chorus (Nicholas Quardokus, Director)
CSU Concert Singers (Richard Bordas, Director)