Joshua Weilerstein conducts Bernstein & Dawson | John Kimura Parker plays Gershwin | Kennedy Center, Washington, DC Tickets 2026
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Joshua Weilerstein conducts Bernstein & Dawson | John Kimura Parker plays Gershwin

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The NSO brings you William Dawson’s stirring Negro Folk Symphony—a work one New York critic called “the most distinctive and promising American symphonic proclamation which has so far been achieved.” Joshua Weilerstein completes the program with Bernstein’s ever-popular Symphonic Dances from West Side Story and Gershwin’s jazz-infused Rhapsody in Blue.

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3 dates (29 May - 31 May)

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8:00 pm

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