festival

Encounter IV

Dvořák and the New World
with Robert Winter

Thursday, August 12, 7:30 p.m.
Martin Family Hall, Menlo School
Tickets: $42 adult; $20 student

As eternally popular as Dvořák’s New World Symphony, with its direct association with America, remains, the full story of his two and a half years on our shores is still little known. Join Encounter leader Robert Winter as he shares unique recorded interviews with those who knew Dvořák while he composed the American Quartet and Quintet, presents rare images of the Chicago World’s Fair that Dvořák visited twice, and samples little-known works such as the American Suite for Piano—and much more!

Image: Nathaniel Currier (1813–1888) and James Merritt Ives (1824–1895). The Champions of the Mississippi: “A Race for the Buckhorns,” 1866. Drawn by Frances Flora Bond Palmer (1812–1876). Lithograph, 18 3/8 × 27 3/4 in. (46.7 × 70.5 cm.) U.S.A. Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource, NY