MoxCar Marketing + Communications Masterworks: Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony

Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 anchors a MoxCar Marketing + Communications Masterworks program exploring the voices of American poetry. The evening opens with Ye Who Seek the Truth by Julia Perry, one of the most important American composers of the 20th century, before continuing with Leonard Bernstein’s Songfest. Written for the United States Bicentennial, Songfest sets poetry by 13 American poets and is rarely performed because of its scale, calling for six vocal soloists and orchestra. Music Director Aram Demirjian describes the work as the artistic inspiration behind the KSO’s inaugural Poet-in-Residence program, making this performance a natural continuation of the season’s exploration of poetry, storytelling and American voices featuring soprano Raquel González, mezzo-soprano Cierra Byrd, alto Renée Tatum, tenor John Overholt, baritone Stephen Salters and bass David Crawford.

PERRY: Ye Who Seek the Truth
BERNSTEIN: Songfest
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5