𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗠𝗔𝗡 Symphony No. 2
𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗦 Trumpet Concerto (World Premiere)
𝗗𝗩𝗢ŘÁ𝗞 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 Dvořák’s “New World” symphony, Eastman’s minimalist Second Symphony, and the world premiere 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.