Join the celebration as we introduce Maestro Chen to Chicago with a musical “love letter” to the multicultural mosaic of the city’s people and neighborhoods.
Samuel Coleridge Taylor: Danse Nègre
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: Rondo from Sinfonietta No. 1 for Strings
Victor Pichardo (arr. Gustavo Leone): Encuentro: Suite de Danzas Yucatecas
Zhanhao He / Gang Chen: Excerpts from The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto
Antonín Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”
Leonard Bernstein: Candide Overture
Mei-Ann Chen, conductor
Sones de México Ensemble Chicago
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