Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra: New World

Matthew Halls, conductor

Paul Huang, violin

John Adams: The Chairman Dances

Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Violin Concerto

Antonin Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, “New World”

Echoes of history, dreams, and cinematic glamour resonate through the concert’s music. John Adams’s hit piece The Chairman Dances whisks the listener onto an absurd dance floor, where Mao and Nixon meet in a surreal foxtrot. Korngold’s cinematic Violin Concerto brings the golden age of Hollywood to the stage – composed by a two-time Oscar winner who later turned to concert music. The evening culminates in Dvořák’s beloved Symphony No. 9, New World, in which the European composer interprets the American landscape – the whisper of the prairies, the songs of Indigenous peoples, and the pulse of great cities – in an unforgettable way. 

Season series concert, includes an intermission. Pre-concert talk at 6 PM.

Season tickets for the spring season of 2026 will go on sale on Wednesday 29 October at 7 PM. Single tickets for the spring season series concerts will go on sale on Monday 3 November at 9 AM.

Tickets: adults 34 € / pensioners 26 € / students, unemployed and conscripts 16 € / children under 18 years 10 €.

You can buy tickets from the Tampere Hall ticket office, Kulttuurimyymälä Aplodi and Lippu.fi online store (Lippupiste adds service and order fees to the ticket prices, along with possible delivery and payment method charges).