Giancarlo Guerrero conducts Dvořák’s New World Symphony, a Czech composer’s interpretation of the American folk songs and spirituals he had come to admire while living in the United States. Two works by prominent American minimalist composers open the program—John Adams’s Short Ride in a Fast Machine and Philip Glass’s Violin Concerto No. 1, featuring GRAMMY® Award-winning violinist Anne Akiko Meyers.
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Grant Park Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero Conductor
Anne Akiko Meyers Violin
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John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Philip Glass Violin Concerto No. 1
Antonín Dvořák Symphony No. 9, From the New World
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This concert is generously supported by American Accents Series Sponsor AbelsonTaylor Group.
