New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra

The New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra welcomes back guest conductor Georgia Mills for its spring concert, opening with Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Ballade for Orchestra , an early work full of ravishing melodies and lush string moments that owes its existence to Coleridge-Taylor's mentor, Sir Edward Elgar. Next, violinist Raina Arnett performs Maruice Ravel's Tzigane , a rhapsodic work inspired by the Hungarian violin virtuoso Jelly D’Arányi. The concert concludes with Antonin Dvorák's popular Symphony No. 8 , which reflects the composer's admiration for natural beauty and his fondness for Czech and Slavonic folk music.