All American: Copland, Gershwin, & More

Door time: 6:00 PM
Show time: 6:30 PM
Six-time Grammy-winning conductor and Music Director Laureate of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Leonard Slatkin joins the Festival for a program celebrating the distinctive American sound. This spotlight on American composers begins with Aaron Copland’s Rodeo with its iconic “Hoedown,” followed by a chaconne from John Corigliano’s romantic score for the film The Red Violin. After the break: Ron Nelson’s paean to the South’s Savannah River, a haunting adagio by “unmistakably American-sounding” Cindy McTee (Washington Post), and finally George Gershwin’s jazzy symphonic poem An American in Paris. 
Artists
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Njioma Grievous, violin 
Program
Aaron Copland, Rodeo
John Corigliano, Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra from The Red Violin 
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Ron Nelson, Savannah River Holiday
Cindy McTee, Adagio for Strings
George Gershwin, An American in Paris
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