Gershwin’s jazzy musical postcard highlights this program of the Americas. From South America, dazzling works by Revueltas, Ginastera, and Moncayo’s rousing Huapango. And from the states, Carlos Miguel Prieto conducts Leonard Bernstein’s dances from On the Town, plus Gershwin’s An American in Paris.
Gershwin’s jazzy musical postcard highlights this program of the Americas. From South America, dazzling works by Revueltas, Ginastera, and Moncayo’s rousing Huapango. And from the states, Carlos Miguel Prieto conducts Leonard Bernstein’s dances from On the Town, plus Gershwin’s An American in Paris.
The Richmond Symphony, under Guest Conductor Anthony Parnther, performs Beethoven’s buoyant Eighth Symphony. Also, a masterwork by pioneering Black composer Florence Price: her Third Symphony from 1938. Principal Horn Dominic Rotella is the Thomas P. Bryan, Jr. Fund soloist in Mozart’s delightful Horn Concerto No. 4.
The Richmond Symphony, under Guest Conductor Anthony Parnther, performs Beethoven’s buoyant Eighth Symphony. Also, a masterwork by Black composer Florence Price: her Third Symphony from 1938. Principal Horn Dominic Rotella is the soloist in Mozart’s delightful Horn Concerto No. 4.