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Visions of America

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Photo of Carlos Simon by Kendall Bessent

American Music Festival - Mainstage Concert

Auburn Symphony Orchestra

Wesley Schulz, Music Director and Conductor


PROGRAM

WILLIAM WALTON – Spitfire Prelude and Fugue
SAMUEL BARBER – Symphony No. 1 in One Movement, op. 9
CARLOS SIMON – Four Black American Dances
AARON COPLAND – The Tender Land Suite

SUMMARY

Journey with the Orchestra through the breadth and depth of the American landscape. From the quiet beauty of rural America in Aaron Copland’s The Tender Land Suite, to the joyful praise break of a church in Carlos Simon’s Four Black American Dances, to the inspirational march of a band in William Walton’s Spitfire Prelude and Fugue, revel in the triumphant sounds of the American dream. 

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