2017 Season

Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto

When & Where

Concerts
Wed Jul 19 2017 Jay Pritzker PavilionInfo

Program

Kenji Bunch: Supermaximum
Camille Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3
Aaron Copland: The Red Pony

Description

Conductor Brett Mitchell leads the orchestra and rising star Angelo Xiang Yu in Saint-Saëns' romantic Violin Concerto. The evening opens with Kenji Bunch's uplifting Supermaximum and closes with The Red Pony, Aaron Copland's film score adapted from the John Steinbeck 1933 novella.

Featured performers:

Grant Park Orchestra
Brett Mitchell
, Guest Conductor
Angelo Xiang Yu, Violin