Marta Gardolinska, Music Director of the Opéra national de Lorraine,
conducts this programme of conflict and resolution. With its
beautifully broad ranges of tonal colour, tinged with the trials of
the American Civil War, it is easy to see why Copland's score for
Appalachian Spring earned him a Pulitzer Prize. Following this work,
Alena Baeva will step onto the platform to perform Barber's Violin
Concerto, a piece which similarly vacillates between contentment and
conflict. The "New World" Symphony was one of the triumphs of
Dvorák's musical career, and it has been adored by audiences ever
since. Aptly, it accompanied Neil Armstrong on his first trip to the
moon, and in a rather more down-to-earth context, the symphony's
second movement was used in the 1973 Ridley Scott-directed "Hovis"
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