{"id":11272,"date":"2017-10-14T22:56:53","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T02:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=11272"},"modified":"2017-10-15T13:45:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T17:45:01","slug":"kw-symphonys-mozart-dvoraks-new-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/kw-symphonys-mozart-dvoraks-new-world\/","title":{"rendered":"KWS&#8217;s &#8220;Mozart &#038; Dvorak&#8217;s New World&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the KW Symphony&#8217;s concert titled &#8220;Mozart &amp; Dvorak&#8217;s New World.&#8221; This was the 1st concert of the season.<\/p>\n<p>From a piece that&#8217;s been enjoyed for 231 years to one that premiered a week ago, this was a splendid concert.<\/p>\n<p>The guest conductor was Mei-Ann Chen. She was terrific &#8212; if she&#8217;d been chosen as the symphony&#8217;s new director I wouldn&#8217;t have minded at all.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the program:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Calixa Lavallee \/ John Fenwick: O Canada\n<ul>\n<li>I don&#8217;t sing it too often any more &#8212; it was nice to do so with an enthusiastic crowd.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Vivian Fung: Aqua\n<ul>\n<li>The piece contained clusters of sound. It was a bit like Jerry Goldsmith&#8217;s &#8220;Planet of the Apes&#8221; score.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major\n<ul>\n<li>You can&#8217;t go wrong with Mozart. R\u00e9mi Geniet was the guest pianist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Darren Fung: Sesquie for Canada\u2019s 150th\n<ul>\n<li>If you knew the title &#8220;Toboggan!&#8221; you would smile for this energetic piece. The composer was in attendance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, From the New World\n<ul>\n<li>One of my favourites, this is the 2nd or 3rd time I&#8217;ve heard it live. Of all the sublime moments, the beginning of the 2nd movement is my favourite. Chen really got into this piece, conducting without a score.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I previously reviewed the KW Symphony&#8217;s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/kw-symphonys-edwins-grand-finale\/\">Edwin\u2019s Grand Finale<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the KW Symphony&#8217;s concert titled &#8220;Mozart &amp; Dvorak&#8217;s New World.&#8221; This was the 1st concert of the season. From a piece that&#8217;s been enjoyed for 231 years to one that premiered a week ago, this was a splendid concert. The guest conductor was Mei-Ann Chen. She was terrific &#8212; if she&#8217;d been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[91,13,5],"class_list":["post-11272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews-of-music","tag-classical","tag-music","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11272"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11286,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11272\/revisions\/11286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}