We're playing a Serenade for Strings by a certain protégé of Dvorak, but we aren't doing so hot. I guess you could say it... SUKS!
If you got that pun, you might be a band nerd.
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We're playing part of Dvorak's New World Symphony right now; it says Ninth on the sheet music but I'm confused because it's also Fifth or something like that.
Dvorak's first four symphonies were all written in his youth and he never published them as an adult. So, when it was premiered, the New World Symphony was given number #5, and it was known as that for awhile. That is, until they discovered his juvenilia and re-numbered everything. So now it's #9.
