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April 5, 2014
A Potpourri of Favorites

Doors open at 6:45 p.m.
Prelude talk from 7–7:30 p.m.
Concert begins at 8 p.m.

Bankhead Theater, 2400 First Street, Livermore, California

This program is dedicated to the memory of Paul Kasameyer.

Weber
: Overture to Oberon

Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, and Orchestra
Kristina Anderson, violin
Holly Barnes, viola

Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”

Read the concert program insert, including program notes (558K pdf).

Kristina Anderson Antonin Dvořák’s landmark “Symphony from the New World”, written in 1893, is a monument of the Romantic repertoire and one of the world’s great works, a favorite of symphony audiences everywhere. It cemented Holly BarnesDvořák’s status as a towering talent, set the foundation of American music on its indigenous melodic roots, and in 1969 travelled to the Moon on Apollo 11 as one of Neil Armstrong’s favorite recordings. The Symphony joins this classic with the overture to Carl Maria von Weber’s final opera Oberon, written as what the composer likely knew to be his last piece, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, a crossover fusion of styles between the smaller string concerto and the full orchestral symphony. The sinfonia features LAS concertmaster Kristina Anderson (pictured above at left) and Boston Ballet Orchestra associate principal violist Holly Barnes (pictured at right). Experience this great variety of styles on this night of fundamental works from the Classical and Romantic periods.

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