Chancellor's Concert: American Voices

Featuring the Washington University Symphony Orchestra and Washington University Choirs.

Steven Jarvi, symphony conductor

Nicole Aldrich, choir director

Sandra Geary, accompanist for the choir

 

Program:

Overture to "West Side Story" (1957, arr.1965) - Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) and arranged by Maurice Peress

Alleluia (1940) - Randall Thompson (1899-1984)

Old American Songs (1950, 1952) - Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
1. "Simple Gifts"
2. "Ching-a-Ring Chaw"
3. "Long Time Ago"
4. "I Bought a Cat"
5. "Zion's Walls"
6.  "At the River"

Intermission

Symphony No. 2 "Romantic" (1930) - Howard Hanson (1896-1981)
I. Adagio - Allegro Moderato
II.  Andante con tenerezza
III.  Allegro con brio

 

Free Admission.