American composers took the discipline and frameworks of European classical music and added swagger, jazz, and their own unique energy. Celebrate two centuries of quintessentially American classics such as Bernstein’s West Side Story: Symphonic Dances and Copland’s Lincoln Portrait, led by ESO Chief Conductor Alexander Prior.
Program
- BERNSTEIN West Side Story Symphonic Dances
- COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man
- COPLAND A Lincoln Portrait
- BARBER Overture to The School for Scandal
- HANSON Merry Mount: Suite
- MAZZOLI River Rouge Transfiguration
Guest Artists
Alexander Prior
Conductor
D.T. Baker
Narrator