Dalia Stasevska conducts Dvořák’s "New World" Symphony and Revueltas's La Noche de los Mayas

Renowned Finnish conductor Dalia Stasevska returns to The Cleveland Orchestra's home base, Severance Music Center, to lead "America's finest" orchestra (The New York Times) in a double header awash in the sounds of the Americas. The 1939 film La Noche de los Mayas has been largely forgotten, but the score by the great Silvestre Revueltas has found new life as a concert piece in recent decades, and with good reason: Revueltas's rhythms, which he described as "booming, dynamic, tactile, visual," are utterly irresisible in this percussive and brassy orchestral suite. Stasevska and The Cleveland Orchestra then travel north into the United States, where Antonín Dvořák drew on African American spirituals, Indigenous melodies, and even the folk traditions of his native Bohemia to create one of the world's favorite works: the emotionally all-encompassing "New World" Symphony, by turns imposingly propulsive and achingly nostalgic.