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.
$31 – $113
Location: Chautauqua Auditorium
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Learn MoreArtists:
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Njioma Grievous, violin
Program:
Aaron Copland, Rodeo
John Corigliano, Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra from The Red Violin (1997)
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Ron Nelson, Savannah River Holiday (1952)
Cindy McTee, Adagio for Strings (2002)
George Gershwin, An American in Paris
Immediately following this concert ticket holders are invited to a brief, interactive Q&A with the program’s conductor and soloist in Chautauqua Auditorium.
This concert is offered on both Thursday and Friday. Prefer a different night? Buy Thursday tickets here.
