Festival at a Glance

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7

PERSPECTIVES ON THE “AMERICAN SUBLIME”

Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, 2 pm

A Lecture by Tim Barringer followed by a guided tour of the exhibit:

Go West: Selections from the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, C.R. Smith Collection

The lecture will be free of charge with exhibit admission.

The exhibit at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum will remain open from Saturday, October 16, through Sunday, January 9

TICKET INFORMATION:

$ 5.50 Adults
$ 4.50 Seniors
Free to members
For more information call:512-936-8746 or visit us online at www.TheStoryofTexas.com

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9

DVORAK AND THE “AMERICAN SUBLIME”

McCullough Theatre, 7:30-10 pm

Epic American landscape paintings will furnish a backdrop to music in live performance and commentary in this intimate and informal introductory event.

Dvorak: American Suite
Rick Rowley, piano

Dvorak: Humoresques Nos. 4 and 7
Edward MacDowell: selected piano works
Arthur Farwell: Navajo War Dance No. 2 and Pawnee Horses
Gregory Allen, piano

Dvorak/Fisher: “Goin’ Home”
Harry Burleigh: “Deep River” and other spirituals
Arthur Farwell: Pawnee Horses
The University of Texas Chamber Singers - James Morrow, conductor

About the New World Symphony:
The Hiawatha Melodrama – Lucien Douglas, actor
Visual presentation by Joseph Horowitz and Peter Bog Danoff

With commentary by Tim Barringer on American Landscape art (with slides) and Erika Bsumek on Native-American culture
Joseph Horowitz, host

TICKET INFORMATION:

Free admission for faculty, staff and students with UT ID
Austin Symphony Orchestra ticket-holders will be admitted free of charge.
Tickets for general public on sale September 1 / $10
For more information call 512-471-1444

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12 - 13

FROM THE NEW WORLD

Bass Concert Hall, 8 pm

The Austin Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Pasternack, piano
Peter Bay, conductor

Dvorak: American Suite
Busoni: Indian Fantasy (piano and orchestra)
Dvorak: New World Symphony

CONCERT PRELUDE

(Free to ticket-holders)

McCullough Theatre, 7:00 to 7:40 pm

A mini-concert with commentary, featuring Joseph Horowitz, Benjamin Pasternack, Lucien Douglas, and the University of Texas Chamber Singers, James Morrow, conducting

Harry Burleigh: “Deep River” (choral)
Dvorak/Fisher: “Goin’ Home” (choral)
Ferruccio Busoni: Indian Diary No. 1 (solo piano)
Arthur Farwell: Pawnee Horses (piano; choral)
Hiawatha Melodrama (with narrator)

TICKET INFORMATION:

$19.00, 23.00, 25.00, 29.00, 31.00, 34.00 and 37.00
Tickets on sale now
For more information, call 512-476-6064
Admission to the concert Prelude will be free of charge to Austin Symphony Orchestra ticket holders

Benjamin Pasternack

“First class from every point of view —mechanically, musically, imaginatively, emotionally.”

- The Boston Globe

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19

CONFERENCE: “DVORAK AND THE SEARCH FOR AMERICA”

School of Music Recital Studio, MRH 2.608, 9 - 5 pm

This all-day conference is offered free of charge.

9:00 — Joseph Horowitz on Dvorak and America (with visual presentation for New World Symphony,
incorporating text from The Song of Hiawatha and paintings by Catlin, Remington, Church, Bierstadt, etc.)
9:40 — H.W. Brands on Theodore Roosevelt and the Emerging Myth of the West
10:00 – Tim Barringer on Dvorak and American Landscape Painting (withslides)
10:30 — Response: Richard Crawford, Gunther Schuller, Joseph Horowitz
11:30 — Discussion
12:15 — Lunch
1:30 — Mini-concert with Gregory Allen and UC Singers: music by Arthur Farwell and Bela Bartok
1:45 — Michael Pisani: on Arthur Farwell and Bela Bartok as parallel pioneers
2:15 — Response: Elliot Antokoletz, Erika Bsumek
2:30 — Break
2:45 — Alan Houtchens on why Dvorak is so popular in the US
3:15 — Karl Miller on Dvorak and American popular song
3:45 — Response: Shirley Thompson
4:00 — Lorenzo Candelaria on Dvorak, Austin, and the All-American concert movement
4:30 — Response: Richard Crawford
5:00 to 6:00: Discussion

TICKET INFORMATION:

Free Admission
For more information, call 512-232-7336

DVORAK AND THE AMERICAN WEST

Bates Recital Hall, 8 pm

A recital by the Miró String Quartet, violist Roger Myers, violinist Brian Lewis, pianist Rick Rowley, and actor Lucien Douglas with commentary by Gunther Schuller, Joseph Horowitz, and the artists.

Dvorak: Two Bagatelles
Dvorak: American String Quartet
Dvorak: Sonatina for Violin and Piano
Dvorak: American String Quintet

TICKET INFORMATION:

$ 16 general public
$ 13 UT Faculty/Staff
$ 10 students
For ticket information call 512-471-1444

Miró Quartet

“The Miró Quartet poured out phrase
after phrase of sheer lyric beauty”

- The New York Times

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Bates Recital Hall, Austin, 8 pm

CONDUCTED BY GUNTHER SCHULLER

A rare opportunity to hear Frederick Delius’s intoxicating celebration of the New World

George Chadwick: Jubilee
Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B minor
Bion Tsang, cello
Frederick Delius: Appalachia – Variations on an Old Slave Song with Final Chorus
The University of Texas Chamber Singers
James Morrow, Conductor

In celebration of the sesquicentennial of George Chadwick, born November 13, 1854, and the birthday of Gunther Schuller, born November 22, 1925.

TICKET INFORMATION:

$ 20.00
Free to School of Music students, faculty and staff (tickets must be secured in advance.)
Tickets available on September 1
For more information call 512-471-1444

Gunther Schuller

“No American musician has been more comprehensively accomplished than Gunther Schuller”

- Richard Dyer, The Boston Globe