This year will be opened at the beginning of March by a Japanese orchestra from Kyoto.
Doshisha University Orchestra is one of the most prestigious and oldest youth orchestras in Japan. They will perform his Symphony No. 7 in D minor on 5 March in the Dvořák Hall of the Rudolfinum. This will be accompanied by the Academic Festive Overture Op. 80 by his mentor and friend Johannes Brahms. The recent musical past will be represented by Music for Symphony Orchestra by Japanese composer Yasushi Akutagawa, which reflects the influences of Dimitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev.
The second concert in the series will feature the Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra from Southern California, which celebrates its thirtieth anniversary this year and is recognized as one of the country’s foremost youth orchestras. The orchestra will perform works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Bedřich Smetana and Giuseppe Verdi under the baton of Jacob Sustaita in Prague’s Smetana Hall on June 29.
The third concert of the series will be concluded on 8 July in the Dvořák Hall of the Rudolfinum by the Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra, an American orchestra from the San Francisco area that tours internationally every three years. Among other things, the Rudolfinum will pay tribute to Czech music with Josef Suk’s Fantastic Scherzo for Orchestra, Op. 25, the Unanswered Question by the American composer Charles Ives and the overture to the opera Candide by his compatriot Leonard Bernstein.
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