250 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, this program responds to the question: what makes American music sound, or feel, American? First, there’s an immense sense of possibility, a vibrant optimism that underscores so much of American music. Then there’s the longing for an imagined utopia, a place of safety and belonging. 

 

American Dreams weaves together a wide array of American music that celebrates who we are, where we've been, and who we aspire to become.

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Copland, arr. Stanley Simple Gifts

John Corigliano: Violin Sonata 

Blind Tom Wiggins: The Battle at Manassas

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, arr. Powell: Deep River

Gershwin arr. Heifetz: Selections from Porgy and Bess

Curtis Stewart: 24 American Caprices: Isn’t She Lovely

Michael Abels: Iconoclasm

Leonard Bernstein,  arr. Penaforte: West Side Story Suite, Somewhere and America

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