The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, with Jeannette Sorrell conducting, presented two works by Joseph Bologne Chevalier de Saint-Georges alongside his 18th-century contemporary, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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The program for his January concert in Eureka will include works by J.S. Bach, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Cesar Franck, Edwin H. Lemare, as well as Stafford’s own transcription of Dvorak’s 1st movement from Symphony No. 8, op. 88.
An American in Paris, composition by George Gershwin, subtitled “A Tone Poem for Orchestra.” It premiered at Carmegie Hall in New York City on Dec. 13, 1928, and it was the first of Gershwin’s purely orchestral works, with no role for piano but plenty of jazz harmonies and spirit. In 1951 (after