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American Modern Orchestra: Concert I - Slightly Comic Overture (World Premiere)

  • Skidmore College - Arthur Zankel Music Center, Filene Hall, Saratoga Springs, NY 815 North Broadway Saratoga Springs, NY, 12866 United States (map)
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Join us for an afternoon concert, featuring the American Modern Orchestra, with the exquisite Peter Bay, conductor for the Austin Symphony. Composers include Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Paterson, and Einojuhani Rautavaara, as well as a brand-new work from one of our ‘Mostly Modern Composers’.

Wine, Beer & Snack Bar opens @ 2 PM. $6 Drinks make this the best deal in Saratoga Springs!

PROGRAM
ROBERT PATERSON* – Slightly Comic Overture**
†Work by MMF Institute Composer Participant, TBA**
EINOJUHANI RAUTAVAARA – Concerto for Piano & Orchestra, Op. 45*
Intermission
SAMUEL BARBER – Knoxville Summer of 1915
LEONARD BERNSTEIN — On The Waterfront

ARTISTS
American Modern Orchestra
Peter Bay, Conductor
Yifei Xu, Piano
Ju Hyeon Han, soprano

**World Premiere
*Yifei Yu, winner of the Mostly Modern Concerto Competition, 2019
†This work will be chosen from our MMF orchestral readings, and will be conducted by one of our conducting participants.

Program and artists subject to change

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