Dvorak’s New World Symphony & Liyuan Xie Plays Mozart
Saturday, September 6th at 7:30PM
Former Apollo Ensemble Concertmaster and current First Associate Concertmaster of the legendary Cleveland Orchestra, Liyuan Xie returns to Boston to perform Mozart’s “Turkish” Violin Concerto No. 5 on a program that also features Yvette Janine Jackson’s Atlantic Crossing and Dvorak’s New World Symphony.
Poster: Mengqiao Sun
Photo (Liyuan Xie): Roger Mastroianni
Photo (Yvette Janine Jackson): Stephanie Mitchell
First Church Cambridge
11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Program:
Yvette Janine Jackson: Atlantic Crossing (Reuben Stern, Conductor)
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5, “Turkish” (Liyuan Xie, Violin)
~ Intermission ~
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”
Artists:
| Conductor | Elias Miller |
| Conductor | Reuben Stern |
| Violinist | Liyuan Xie |
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