Intrepid Travelers

For this program, we explore the music of traveling musicians. Kodaly was a musicologist through and through traveling throughout Europe and documenting folk songs that had, in many cases, never been written down. Rachmaninoff toured the world as a performer and conductor, making appearances all over the United States–even in some surprisingly small communities. Our program closes with perhaps the great journeyman work, Dvorak’s New World Symphony. Teaching in New York City, Dvorak began to explore the various types of music that were shaping the American identity and combined them in a thrilling and moving work for orchestra that audiences everyone adore.