All American: Copland, Gershwin & More

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.
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Njioma Grevious, violin
Copland: Rodeo
Corigliano: Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra from The Red Violin
Nelson: Savannah River Holiday
Cindy McTee: Adagio for Strings
Gershwin: An American in Paris
Join us at 6:30 PM for a pre-concert talk under the tent on the north side of Chautauqua Auditorium.