Program

BERNSTEIN: Overture to Candide
PRICE: Symphony No. 1
COPLAND: Lincoln Portrait
BERNSTEIN: Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront

Artists

Louis Langrée, conductor
George Takei, narrator

Venue

Music Hall

What's Interesting

The CSO performs music of American composers representing a variety of perspectives. Bernstein’s optimistic Candide and gripping score to the Oscarwinning film On the Waterfront frame a program including Copland’s Lincoln Portrait, a reprise from Louis Langrée’s first CSO subscription concert as Music Director, and Florence Price’s Symphony No. 1. In 1933, Price’s magnificent, tour de force Symphony No. 1 was the first symphonic work by a Black woman to be played by a major American orchestra.