Daily News | Philadelphia Orchestra’s revival of Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony is a knockout
If you’re a regular orchestra goer, and if you’re very lucky, once or twice a year you might experience an emotional journey like the one that is the beating heart of William Dawson’sThe recurring main melody is somber and stays in your ear. Toward the end of the second movement, it returns in a more menacing form and — like a burning ember that
This movement is nothing less than some of the greatest American music of the 20th century, making the arrival of Dawson’s only symphony Thursday night feel like an event. TheThere’s another reason to greet the Dawson’s reemergence here as momentous. It was the Philadelphia Orchestra that gave the world premiere of the piece in 1934, first at the Academy of Music and then in Carnegie Hall. It’s been reprised in its entirety only once before by this orchestra, in 1998 at a Martin Luther King, Jr.
The concerto is, of course, lovely. But context is a powerful influencer, and the Dawson emerged as the piece of greater stature — especially in this mighty performance. You can hear little flecks of influence , but Dawson — Alabama-born, Tuskegee Institute and Chicago-educated, and known for raising the Tuskegee Institute Choir to new heights — is an original. His musical language is strikingly contemporary.
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