A transatlantic sound dialog between the old and new world: in this program, Mihkel Kütson combines American sound visions with European soul - from Copland's lyrical "Quiet City" to Corigliano's virtuoso percussion concerto and Dvořák's monumental "Symphony from the New World".
Mihkel Kütson, currently General Music Director of the Krefeld and Mönchengladbach theaters, travels to New York: Dvořák was appointed to New York in 1892 in order to give American national music a boost. In his symphony "From the New World", he wanted to characteristically recreate spirituals and indigenous music, but it sounds above all like his Bohemian homeland. Copland - who always found inspiration in Old Europe - is considered typically American. In the incidental music to Quiet City, the soulful trumpet accompanies the protagonist on his wanderings through New York. Alexei Gerassimez "conjures up" the sheer endless sound facets of the percussion in the concerto by John Corigliano, which premiered there in 2008.
January 22 and 23, 2026
