EASTMAN Symphony No. 2
MARSALIS Trumpet Concerto (World Premiere)
DVORAK Symphony No. 9 ("From the New World")

Music Director Franz Welser-Möst leads a celebration of African American music: the symphonic tribute to spirituals in Dvorak’s "New World" Symphony, Eastman’s minimalist Second Symphony, and the world premiere of Wynton Marsalis’s imaginative Trumpet Concerto. Principal Trumpet Michael Sachs and Marsalis discuss following each other’s careers and their excitement at collaborating on this brilliant, rollicking new piece that draws from a wide range of American musical idioms. Scholar Kira Thurman describes Julius Eastman’s mid-century world and reflects on the process of rediscovering and celebrating this long-neglected Black composer.