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 21, 2009
  Mahler's Seventh Symphony
• November 27, 2009
  Mozart and Bruckner
• November 28, 2009
  Mozart and Bruckner
• November 29, 2009
  Mozart and Bruckner
• December 12, 2009
  The Ring--Orchestral Adventure
• January 10, 2010
  Morales Plays Mozart

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 08, 2009 Download Adobe Acrobat to view Program Notes.

Series Information:

Part of the Celebration Collection, and package Sunday P7

Part of the Connoisseur Collection, and package Sunday 4B

Part of the Matinee Collection, and package Sunday 4B

Part of the Weekend Collection, and package Sunday 4B