Join us on November 13 for Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9: From the New World!

PROGRAM:

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Scenes from Hiawatha Overture

Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate: Ghost of the White Deer

Darrel Hale, bassoon

Antonín Dvořák: Symphony no. 9

The thread that links these three works together is American Indian culture. In the cases of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Hiawatha Overture and Antonín Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony, these are European composers who viewed indigenous culture through the highly romanticized lens of Longfellow’s Song of Hiawatha. Our second work, featuring BRSO principal bassoonist, Darrel Hale, is a six-year-old concerto by Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate, The Ghost of the White Deer. Tate, who is a member of the Chickasaw Nation, based this work upon a traditional Chickasaw story.