Rhapsody in Blue

The evening

A Stateside soundrack

Taking us across the Atlantic in this all-American extravaganza, South Carolina native Kellen Gray celebrates the diversity of American culture and its influence on classical music. Bernstein’s genre-defying operetta Candide is full of wit and emotion while Short Symphony by Copland fizzes with vibrant Mexican folk themes. Jessie Montgomery’s Hymn for Everyone is full of lush, chorale-like textures, and there’s a dynamic mix of classical and African American traditions in the Symphony No.4 by Harlem Renaissance icon William Grant Still.

Bernstein

Overture, Candide

Copland

Short Symphony

Gershwin

Rhapsody in Blue

Jessie Montgomery

Hymn for Everyone

William Grant Still

Symphony No.4