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ENTERTAINMENT

CELEBRATING

WINTER

at the Symphony

John Zoltek conducting the Glacier Symphony.
BRENDA AHEARN | FOR GLACIER SYMPHONY & CHORALE
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or its 31st season, the Glacier cert “Winter’s New World,” taking place Neil Armstrong took a recording of it
Symphony and Chorale wanted Feb. 22 and 23.
with him on Apollo 11 for the lunar land- Glacier Symphony
to honor nature and all that it This show will feature Antonin ing in 1969.
Masterworks
gives to artists to keep their creativity Dvorak’s “Symphony No. 9 in E,” com- When Dvorak wrote the piece in
inspired and their souls recharged.
monly referred to as the “New World 1893, he was the director of the National concerts scheduled

In August, the symphony paid trib- Symphony,” which is one of the Czech Conservancy of Music in New York City. for Feb. 22-23
ute to the autumnal giants of the music composer’s signature works.
He longed for the countryside of his na-
world, so it is itting that the winter sea- Dvorak’s symphony is popular on tive country, and the symphony relects
son would bring out the crisp, cool talent Earth and beyond; it was the irst piece the new world of the city. Many musicol-
to be featured in the Masterworks con-
of music to make it to the moon, when
ogists surmise that the melodies in New
By MOLLY PRIDDY