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23 July 2026 Boulder (Colorado, USA)
Colorado Music Festival: All American: Copland, Gershwin, & More
Festival Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin - Chautauqua Auditorium
Program Info: Festival Orchestra Leonard Slatkin, conductor Njioma Grievous, violin
Six-time Grammy-winning conductor and Music Director Laureate of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Leonard Slatkin joins the Festival for a program celebrating the distinctive American sound. This spotlight on American composers begins with Aaron Copland’s Rodeo with its iconic “Hoedown,” followed by a chaconne from John Corigliano’s romantic score for the film The Red Violin. After the break: Ron Nelson’s paean to the South’s Savannah River, a haunting adagio by “unmistakably American-sounding” Cindy McTee (Washington Post), and finally George Gershwin’s jazzy symphonic poem An American in Paris.
Program: Aaron Copland, Rodeo John Corigliano, Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra from The Red Violin (1997), based on the music for the 1998 movie of the same name by François Girard — Ron Nelson, Savannah River Holiday (1952) Cindy McTee, Adagio for Strings (2002) George Gershwin, An American in Paris