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Arturo Márquez's Concierto de Otoño (Autumn Concerto)
March 22: Dvořák Symphony No. 8
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Composed in 2018 specially for Pacho Flores, the Concierto de Otoño (Autumn Concerto) calls for four types of trumpet, merging Latin musical styles with the traditional fast-slow-fast concerto form, opening with an Afro-Cuban dance-infused dialogue between soloist and orchestra, continuing with a love song told in continuous variations, and concluding with a blazingly brilliant rondo.
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Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 8
Dvořák’s Eighth is full of luminous melodies and unexpected harmonic shifts. The second movement alludes to the funeral march of Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony, but lighter elements prevail in a whirlwind finale that is delightfully Czech.