From the new world

It’s true that we wouldn’t want to be without the current possibilities of digital sound production, but today we will be wholeheartedly celebrating symphonic film music. We pay tribute to this unique art with which composers play the strings of our soul by giving a sound, instrument, or instrumental group to our every hope and every disappointment. Our memories of great films will be awakened this evening by some of their masterpieces, followed in the second half by a work that served as a blueprint for the orchestral magicians of the studios in Hollywood and Rome: Dvořák’s immortal Ninth Symphony, “From the New World.”