Braceros Performed in April 24 Orchesta Concert

Alfred Eiji Braceros, Belleville, performed in Cornell College’s annual spring orchestra concert.
The concert featured orchestral works from the 19th and early 20th centuries, including Gioachino Rossini’s “Overture to the Barber of Seville,” Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s “Danse Negre,” and Johann Strauss’ famous waltz “By the Beautiful Blue Danube.”
The largest piece featured on the program is by Czech composer Antonin Dvorak. His “American Suite” is a five-movement piece combining Dvorak’s characteristic folk rhythms with inspiration he drew from the years he spent composing, teaching, and conducting in America from 1892-95.
Dvorak spent part of the summer of 1893 living with the Czech community in Spillville, Iowa, just north of Mount Vernon, Iowa, as it happens, hearing folk music of both Czech and American origin, which provided inspiration for a number of his composition, including the very famous “Symphony from the New World.”