Description:

Winner of the Leonard Bernstein Prize in 2006, American cellist Alisa Weilerstein has been dubbed as " ... arguably Yo-Yo Ma's heiress apparent as sovereign of the American cello" by New York magazine. She joins forces with Toronto Symphony Music Director Peter Oundjian for a capstone of the cello repertoire, Dvorak's Concerto in B minor, written during his American visit under the inspiration of a concerto by Broadway tunesmith Victor Herbert. Bookending it is Mozart's bubbling, enigmatic Magic Flute Overture and Nielsen's roiling Fifth Symphony, written in the aftermath of World War I and declared by musicologist Deryck Cooke as "the greatest 20th-century symphony."

Related Concerts:

• March 16, 2010
  Vänskä Conducts Sibelius
• March 27, 2010
  Mozart and Elgar
• April 11, 2010
  The Rite of Spring
• April 16, 2010
  Ax Plays Beethoven
• May 27, 2010
  Mozart and Rachmaninoff
• May 29, 2010
  Mozart and Rachmaninoff

Audio Samples:

MOZART - Overture to The Magic Flute

DVORAK - Cello Concerto

Concert Enhancements:

Free Pre-Concert Conversation one hour prior to concert (About Pre-Concert Conversations)

Program Notes:

November 08, 2009 Download Adobe Acrobat to view Program Notes.

Series Information:

Part of the 2010 Celebration Collection, and package Sunday P7

Part of the 2010 Connoisseur Collection, and package Sunday 4B

Part of the 2010 Matinee Collection, and package Sunday 4B

Part of the 2010 Weekend Collection, and package Sunday 4B