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Toledo Symphony performs Banner
November 22 - 23, 20248:00pm EST
- featured work:
- Banner for solo string quartet and chamber orchestra
- presenter:
- Toledo Symphony
- (419) 246-8000
- https://www.artstoledo.com/toledosymphony/
- venue:
- Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle
- 2445 Monroe St
Toledo, OH 43620 United States + Google Map - https://toledomuseum.org/
- event category:
- Performances
A century ago, a piercing clarinet glissando opened the premiere performance of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and forever changed American music. The fusion of jazz and popular elements vividly depicted New York City in 1924 and opened upopened possibilities for generations of composers to follow. Copland fused melodies inspired by American roots music with the European symphonic tradition in his heroic and majestic Third Symphony, featuring the oft-performed Fanfare for the Common Man. GRAMMY®-award winning composer Jessie Montgomery’s Banner interweaves our national anthem with “a variety of cultural anthems, American folk songs and popular idioms” that reflect the diversity and vitality of our 21st century nation.