Moxley Carmichael KSO Masterworks Series: A Shift Festival Send-Off – CANCELED
Friday, March 20, 2020 • 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
(As a proactive measure against the COVID-19 virus, this event has been canceled.)
Enjoy the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra before the KSO hits the road for Washington, D.C., to be one of only four orchestras featured in SHIFT: A Festival of American Orchestras at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The hometown audience will gets a special preview of the D.C. program, “Knoxville: Artists at Home,” including Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances, a reprisal of Michael Schachter’s Overture to Knoxville (commissioned by the KSO in 2017) and Copland’s Suite from The Tender Land, plus festive American classics.
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
Schachter: Overture to Knoxville
Traditional (arr. Dragon): America the Beautiful
Copland: Suite from The Tender Land
Copland: Hoe-Down from Rodeo
Sousa: The Stars and Stripes Forever
Aram Demirjian, conductor; University of Tennessee Symphony Brass Ensemble