Young People’s Symphony Orchestra Presents the America 250 Festival: Celebration of American Music

Young People’s Symphony Orchestra presents the America 250 Festival: Celebration of American Music, a special Spring Concert commemorating the 250th anniversary of the United States. This expanded festival program features a first half of chamber music performed by YPSO musicians and a second half with full orchestra—both dedicated to all-American composers—highlighting over a century of American musical voices from Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein to Jessie Montgomery and John Adams.

This event is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Program:

— Chamber Music

Aaron Copland – Fanfare for the Common Violists

Robert Hughes – Three Cowboy Songs, No. 3: Whistling Tune

Kenji Bunch – String Circle for Viola Quintet, I

George Walker – Lyric for Strings

Irving Berlin – Puttin’ on the Ritz

David K. Bakker – Five Guys and Some Fries

Jessie Montgomery – Strum

— Orchestra

Jessie Montgomery – Starburst

John Adams – Tromba Lontana

Aaron Copland – Buckaroo Holiday from Rodeo

Samuel Barber – Essay No. 2 for Orchestra, Op. 17

Leonard Bernstein – Symphonic Dances from West Side Story