Colorado Music Festival presents All American: Copland, Gershwin & More

Six-time Grammy-winning conductor 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