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Dover Quartet
An encore broadcast of this concert will play on September 18, 2026 at 9pm EDT. This concert was originally recorded on February 10, 2025. Program notes courtesy of Carnegie Hall. “One of the greatest quartets of the last 100 years” (BBC Music Magazine) performs in Carnegie Hall’s most transformative space. Dvořák’s “American” Quartet, written shortly after his “New World” Symphony, highlights the enormous impact Indigenous music and African American spirituals had on the composer while he lived in the US. The Dover Quartet puts this seminal work in context with the New York premieres of…
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