Aaron P. Dworkin, narrator
The Greensboro Symphony Orchestra presents American Rhapsody
- By Keyshia H. Gray
GREENSBORO, NC (03/08/2022) – Exploring music inspired
by a land of vast geographic and cultural diversity, with a history
equally as immense and complicated, the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra
(GSO) is excited to announce American Rhapsody at the Steven
Tanger Center for the Performing Arts at 8:00 pm on April 02, 2022, made
possible by The Tannenbaum Sternberger Foundation! Featuring Duke
Ellington’s The River Suite, and The American Rhapsody with music by Samuel Coleridge Taylor and narration by Aaron Dworkin, the program will also include the timeless Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” by Antonin Dvorak.
Named a 2005 MacArthur Fellow, President Obama’s first appointment to
the National Council on the Arts, and Governor Snyder’s appointment to
the Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs, Aaron P. Dworkin
served as Dean of the University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre
& Dance (ranked among the top-performing arts schools in the
nation). Dworkin is a spoken-word performing artist with a current
national tour of his American Rhapsody with a national orchestral consortium.
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Beginning the program is work by great American composer Duke Ellington, best known for his jazz career and as one of the foremost big band musicians of all time. Ellington’s "The River Suite," a poetic celebration of the Mississippi River, was premiered in 1970 to accompany a ballet by Alvin Ailey. The American Rhapsody is a work set to Samuel Coleridge Taylor’s Symphonic Variations on an African Air.
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