Aspen Music Festival: Aspen Chamber Symphony with Marin Alsop, conductor

"Celebrate the 2022 season opening with Alsop, Whitaker, and the jazzy sound world of the 20th century! The extraordinary Matthew Whitaker joins celebrated Aspen alumna and former Colorado Symphony music director Marin Alsop for the Aspen Chamber Symphony’s first concert of the season. Hear Whitaker in Rhapsody in Blue, Gershwin’s first work to fuse classical and jazz. On this program are also exciting syncopated rhythms in Polish composer Bacewicz’s Music for String, Trumpets, and Percussion, and in Victory Stride by James P. Johnson."

BACEWICZ : Music for Strings, Trumpets, and Percussion
BARBER: Symphony No. 1, op. 9
GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue
JOHNSON/NICHOLAS HERSH: Victory Stride