(PRINCETON, NJ) The Princeton Symphony Orchestra s 2023-2024 Season opens September 9-10, 2023 with Princeton-based composer Sarah Kirkland Snider s inspirational work Forward Into Light, inspired by women suffragists, and Henri Tomasi s expressive Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra, performed by 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grant winner Steven Banks. William Dawson s Negro Folk Symphony, one of the first full-length works by a Black composer to be performed by a major US orchestra, completes the program.
In it, JFK praised Robert Frost and spoke about his wishes for art in America. A Boulder resident used that to team with a world-renowned composer for a new work at the Colorado Music Festival.