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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. Leonard Slatkin, conductor Njioma Grevious, violin Copland: Rodeo Corigliano: Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra from The Red Violin Nelson: Savannah River Holiday Cindy McTee: Adagio for Strings Gershwin: An American in Paris

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