Program Nine: In Search of a New National Voice

7:00 p.m. Preconcert Talk Michael Pisani
8:00 p.m. Performance American Symphony Orchestra, Leon Botstein, conductor

Aaron Copland (1900–90): Statements (1934); Billy the Kid, ballet suite (1938); Quiet City (1940)
Samuel Barber (1910–81), First Essay, Op. 12 (1937)
Elie Siegmeister (1909–91), American Holiday (1933)
Carlos Chávez (1899–1978), Sinfonía India (1935–36)
Roy Harris (1898–1979), Symphony No. 3 (1938)
Jerome Kern (1885–1945), from Mark Twain, Portrait for Orchestra (1942)