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Work: Negro Folk Symphony

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ComposerDawson, William Levi (1899-1990)
PeriodEarly 20th century
Year1952
Work typeOrchestral
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AmsterdamConcertgebouw Orchestra plays Marsalis’ Trumpet Concerto

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Nabors, Marsalis, Dawson
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; Antony Hermus; Miroslav Petkov

AmsterdamMind the Gap: Concertgebouw Orchestra plays Nabors, Marsalis, Bledsoe and Dawson

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Nabors, Marsalis, Dawson
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; Antony Hermus; Miroslav Petkov
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Met Orchestra brings a long neglected symphony back to life

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William Levi Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony, overlooked for decades, heads an all-American program of 20th-century works in New York. 

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An exciting Sunday at the inaugural mcr:classical festival

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The inaugural mcr:classical weekend comes to a rowdy finish with Stravinsky's Rite of Spring at The Bridgewater Hall.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra rediscovers Dawson's Negro Folk Symphony

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Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads Dawson's first appearance in a subscription concert just this week, programmed alongside Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto with rising soloist Tony Siqi Yun.
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