As we mark 250 years of striving towards a more perfect union, our festival opens with Aaron Copland’s take on American folk songs, a new work by Steven Banks inspired by Nina Simone, a musical love letter by Michael Stephen Brown, and Antonín Dvořák’s Op. 87 Piano Quartet, written on the cusp of his life-altering journey to the New World.
The artists performing are Marya Martin, flute; Steven Banks, saxophone; Stella Chen, violin; Masumi Per Rostad, viola; James Baik, cello; Nina Bernat, bass; Michael Stephen Brown, piano; Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano.
