Mozart and Dvorák  

November 6, 2009

Friday 2:00pm

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Winner of the Leonard Bernstein Prize at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in 2006, American cellist Alisa Weilerstein is part of a musical dynasty that includes father Daniel Weilerstein, former first violinist of the Cleveland Quartet. She joins forces with Toronto Symphony Music Director Peter Oundjian for a capstone of the cello repertoire, Dvorák's Concerto in B minor, written during his American visit under the inspiration of a concerto by Broadway tunesmith Victor Herbert. Bookending it is Mozart's bubbling, enigmatic Magic Flute Overture and Nielsen's roiling Fifth Symphony, written in the aftermath of World War I and declared by musicologist Deryck Cooke as "the greatest 20th-century symphony."

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