Everyone knows the “New World” Symphony, right? You know, THE musical blueprint laid out by Antonin Dvořák, through which, as an outside observer, while visiting director of the National Conservatory in New York, he hoped to reveal to American artists the raw material on which could be built a uniquely national identity. In particular, Dvořák found fascination in African-American spirituals and Native American dances.

Except on today’s Noontime Concert on The Classical Network, the “New World” is goin’ home. In an interesting feat of cross-fertilization, the Alba Consort will weave iconic themes from Dvořák’s most famous symphony into a program of early Sephardic, Iberian, French, Italian, Cypriot, Armenian, and North African music.

The imaginative and revelatory venture is Alba’s response to an invitation from the New York Philharmonic as part of the orchestra’s “New World Initiative,” which encouraged fresh perspectives on the “New World” Symphony. The result is like the discovery of a lost bridge from the Old Country to a brave New World.

The concert was made possible in part by Gotham Early Music Scene, or GEMS, one of its free lunchtime offerings presented on Thursdays at 1:15 p.m, at St. Bartholomew’s Church, 50th Street and Park Avenue, in Midtown Manhattan.

GEMS is a non-profit corporation that supports and promotes artists and organizations in New York City devoted to Early Music – music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, and early Classical periods. For more information on its upcoming midday concerts and other GEMS’ events, look online at gemsny.org.

Then stick around for more music reflective of a journey from the Old World to the New – with works by Dvořák and his colleague at the National Conservatory, Victor Herbert – and some musical presentiments of Yom Kippur.

The holiest day on the Jewish calendar begins at sunset. Get ready to mark the occasion with, among others, Enest Bloch’s moving “Israel Symphony,” Joseph Joachim’s “Hebrew Melodies,” David Stock’s “Yizkor,” and Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek’s set of unpredictable variations on “Kol Nidre.”

We’ll sail the ocean blue and set the tone for atonement, between 12 and 4 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

“Yom Kippur” (1969), by Chaim Gross