Description:

Winner of the Leonard Bernstein Prize in 2006, American cellist Alisa Weilerstein has been dubbed as " ... arguably Yo-Yo Ma's heiress apparent as sovereign of the American cello" by New York magazine. She joins forces with Toronto Symphony Music Director Peter Oundjian for a capstone of the cello repertoire, Dvorak'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."

Related Concerts:

• November 20, 2009
  Mahler's Seventh Symphony
• December 05, 2009
  Nézet-Séguin Conducts
• December 10, 2009
  The Ring--Orchestral Adventure
• December 11, 2009
  The Ring--Orchestral Adventure
• January 21, 2010
  An Evening of Mozart
• January 28, 2010
  Beethoven's Fifth

Audio Samples:

MOZART - Overture to The Magic Flute

DVORAK - Cello Concerto

Concert Enhancements:

Free Pre-Concert Conversation one hour prior to concert (About Pre-Concert Conversations)

Program Notes:

November 07, 2009 Download Adobe Acrobat to view Program Notes.

Series Information:

Part of the Odyssey Collection, and package Saturday 7B

Part of the Weekday Collection, and package Mini 3B

Part of the Weekend Collection, and package Saturday 7B