SoNA
Symphony of Northwest Arkansas
Behind the Mask: Romeo and Juliet March 7, 2026 Walton Arts Center Tamara Dworetz, Guest Conductor
Carnival Overture, Op. 92 (1891) Antonín Dvořák b September 8, 1841 in Nelahozeves, Czech Republic d May 1, 1904 in Prague, Czech Republic
One can make an amusing game out of classifying composers by their developmental velocity. At one end of the scale are thunderbolt
child prodigies of the Mozart and Mendelssohn stripe. Their polar opposites are those who emerge later, among whom the gold medal goes to Domenico Scarlatti, whose epochal keyboard sonatas did not start appearing until he was past 50 years old. Dvořák was more a Scarlatti than a Mozart. Like a fine wine, he needed time to mature and develop. He was in his late thirties before his career