April

Great American Road Trip

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April 18,2020

Classical

Pre-Concert Lecture

6:30 pm

Pre-Concert Music

6:45 pm

Concert Performance

7:30 pm

Buckle up! We're packin' and hittin' the road as we take in the sights on our Great American Road Trip! We'll kick things off with Michael Daugherty's Route 66, which this composer describes as "a high-octane nostalgic musical from Illinois to California along America's first intercontinental highway, as seen through my rear view mirror." Next we head to the Grand Tetons and the Snake River in Jennifer Higdon's All Things Majestic, and finally we take a trip down the Mississippi from the headwaters all the way down to New Orleans in Ferde Grofé's Mississippi Suite. To top it off, we are pleased to welcome back the Springfield Youth Symphony for a side-by-side performance with the Springfield Symphony.

Michael Daugherty - Route 66
Jennifer Higdon - All Things Majestic
Ferde Grofé - Mississippi Suite
Tchaikovsky - Variations on a Rococo Theme
With Bryan Cheng, Cello
2019 Hellam Competition Winner

Want to hear our American Playlist? Check out April's playlist on Spotify here.