USA 250 West Side Story + Lincoln Portrait

Name: USA 250 West Side Story + Lincoln Portrait
Start: 2026-05-17T15:00:00
Location: Sunset Center Theater

Monterey Symphony

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Jayce Ogren's insightful examination of American music continues in this wide-ranging program exploring the musical character of the nation on the approach of its 250th birthday. The concert opens with a profound arrangement of our National Anthem by Italian-American composer Luigi Zaninelli. Sarah Kirkland Snider, a composer with "an unerring knack for breathtaking beauty" (The New Yorker), presents an anticipated new work called Marmoris co-com...

Program

William L. Dawson - Negro Folk Symphony

Composer

Aaron Copland - Lincoln Portrait

Composer

John Stafford Smith - The Star-Spangled Banner

Composer

Leonard Bernstein - Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

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Participants

Jayce Ogren

Conductor