Name: Young Artists Concert 2
Start: 2023-07-16T17:00:00
Location: Southern Vermont Arts Center

Julia Pałęcka

Bree Fotheringham

Kaylee Bontrager

Hang Zhong

Hannah Corbett

Johannes Rosenberg

Dylan Kinneavy

Brian Anderson

Andrew Cannestra

Ignacio García Núñez

Manchester Music Festival

Ask any music lover to name an important American orchestral work, and there’s a good chance the answer will be George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Originally written for Paul Whiteman’s jazz orchestra with solo piano in 1924, the piece entered the concert music repertoire in a plush arrangement by Ferde Grofé—but it’s the lean, stripped-down original that best illustrates Gershwin’s groundbreaking synthesis of classical music’s disciplined elegance and the swinging spontaneity of jazz. Countless composers since Gershwin’s day have incorporated elements of jazz in their works: Aaron Copland’s bluesy trumpet in Quiet City, William Bolcom’s buoyant bounce, the brass swagger and driving pulse of John Adams’s Short Ride in a Fast Machine. And the improvising violinist and composer Mads Tolling, formerly of Turtle Island String Quartet, show with his bluesy concerto Yggdrasil that classical music and jazz continue to make a potent pairing.

Rhapsody in Blue: Music From The City

Southern Vermont Arts Center

Their album, On the Trail with The Lonesome Pines, was hailed byThe Wall Street Journal as “something new and wondrous.” It went on to win the 2025 Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Traditional Western Album, and earned The Times of London’s praise for its “Manhattan-meets-moonshine gems,” landing in their top 10 jazz albums of the year.

Hilary Gardner & The Lonesome Pines

Bach’s Complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin.

Jennifer Koh

The talented students of the MMF Young Artists Program perform full chamber masterworks.