MSO: Rhapsody in Blue

October 21 & 22, 2022 at 7:30 pm
Gallo Center for the Arts

Tickets*: $19/29/39/49/69/94

Featuring: Christopher Dragon, conductor & Gabriela Martinez, piano

Conductor Christopher Dragon will kick off the MSO’s Classics Series with a program celebrating the American Sound. The concert will open with Florence Price’s Concert Overture No. 2, then pianist Gabriela Martinez returns to Modesto with Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. The MSO will end the program with Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”, which draws inspiration from American stories and songs, especially the spiritual style of Black Americans.

PROGRAM

Florence Price: Concert Overture No. 2
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, “From the New World,” Op. 95

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