This program of triumphant music by American composers, featuring musicians from the CSO brass and percussion sections, heralded the return of live concerts at Symphony Center in May of 2021. Works by Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber paint the sounds of traditional fanfare and chorale with modernist colors, and themes by Michael Tilson Thomas, Leonard Bernstein and Gunther Schuller reflect the electric influence of jazz and film music.
PROGRAM
COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man
SCHULLER Symphony for Brass and Percussion, Op. 16
BARBER Mutations from Bach
TILSON THOMAS Street Song for Symphonic Brass
BERNSTEIN Presto barbaro from On the Waterfront (arr. Erickson)
SPONSORS
Sponsorship support for CSO Sessions is generously provided by the Zell Family Foundation; an anonymous donor; Kenneth C. Griffin Charitable Fund; JCS Arts, Health and Education Fund of the DuPage Foundation; the Julian Family Foundation, in honor of Cristina Rocca; Cynthia M. Sargent; Megan and Steve Shebik; Betty W. Smykal; TAWANI Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; ITW, and PNC.
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