American Spirit

Thursday, January 28 @7:30 PM
American Antiquarian Society
185 Salisbury Street, Worcester
Pre-concert talk @7 PM

In celebration of America 250, this program showcases American composers
whose works explore the country’s layered musical traditions while speaking
in unmistakably original voices. Also on the program is Dvořák’s American
Quartet, written during his summer visit to a Bohemian outpost in Iowa.

Program
Florence Price
Five from Folksongs in Counterpoint “Swing Low Sweet Chariot” ♦ listen

John Cage
Harmonies from Apartment House 1776 ♦ listen

Adolphus Hailstork
String Quartet No. 2: Variations on “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” ♦ listen

Antonín Dvořák
American Quartet ♦ listen