A week-long festival of Czech music in New York launches at the Bohemian National Hall with the spotlight on young talents from the Czech Republic, USA and UK. A celebratory evening of chamber music will feature string quartets by composers from the young musicians’ respective homelands – Antonín Dvořák, Wynton Marsalis and Edward Elgar – before they join forces with Czech Philharmonic players in Dvořák’s Serenade for Strings, led by concertmaster Jiří Vodička.
Wynton Marsalis
String Quartet No. 1 “At the Octoroon Balls”, II. Mating Calls and Delta Rhythms, III. Creole Contradanzas
Edward Elgar
String Quartet in E minor, Op. 83, I. Allegro moderato
Antonín Dvořák
String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 “American”, II. Lento
Antonín Dvořák
Serenade for Strings in E major, Op. 22
Members of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestral Academy
Students from the Royal Academy of Music
Alumni of Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra of the USA
Members of the Czech Philharmonic
Jiří Vodička artistic direction
