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Gershwin’s An American in Paris

Name: Gershwin’s An American in Paris
Start: 2024-02-10T19:30:00
Location: Gallo Center for the Arts

Modesto Symphony Orchestra

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In February, Hersh and the MSO will explore the sounds of the 1920’s and 30’s in the U.S. and France. We’ll open the program with William Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony which debuted to critical acclaim at Carnegie Hall in 1934 with Leopold Stokowski leading the Philadelphia Orchestra. Hersh then takes us to France to discover what an actual American in Paris would have heard in the 1920s with Lili Boulanger’s colorful and energetic D’un Matin de P...

Program

George Gershwin - An American in Paris

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William L. Dawson - Negro Folk Symphony

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Lili Boulanger - Of a Spring Morning

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Participants

Nicholas Hersh

Conductor

Modesto Symphony Orchestra

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