America Celebrates 250
Arcadia Symphony and Michael Fennelly, conductor, celebrate America’s greatest music and its roots in European, Jewish, and African American traditions. Performed by musicians from the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic, and the Philadelphia Orchestra, this gala evening features Gershwin’s long-lost choral setting of his masterpiece, You Are My Rhapsody in Blue.
Performers
Arcadia Symphony and Chorus
Michael Fennelly, Conductor
Na Sun, Violin
Megan Weston, Soprano
Amanda Gundling, Conductor
Program
SMITH "The Star-Spangled Banner"
SAINT-SAËNS Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, Op. 28
KERN "Ol' Man River" from Show Boat
COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man
COPLAND Lincoln Portrait
TRAD. "Shenandoah"
BERNSTEIN "Somewhere" from West Side Story
BRODSZKY "Be My Love" from Toast of the Town