Bard Music Festival
Program Eleven: The Triumph of the American Symphonic Tradition
August 21, 2005
Bard Music Festival
August 21, 2005
4:00 p.m. Preconcert Talk Christopher H. Gibbs
5:00 p.m. Performance American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, conductor
Aaron Copland (1900–90): Symphony No. 3 (1946); Preamble for a Solemn Occasion (1949); Inscape (1967)
Fanfares by Walter Piston (1894–1976), Roy Harris (1898–1979), Henry Cowell (1897–1965), and William Grant Still (1895–1978)
Roger Sessions (1896–1985), Symphony No. 2 (1944–46)