Chicago Sinfonietta Presents

Maestro Paul Freeman and guest conductor Harvey Felder, Music Director of the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra, open the Chicago Sinfonietta’s 2010-2011 season with a concert saluting the laborers of the world. This memorable concert will include Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man and Antonin Dvorák’s remarkable Slavonic Dances. The program continues with Michal Daughterty’s Fire and Blood, featuring Tai Murray on violin, and an original orchestral composition by Sinfonietta principal violist Reneé Baker, Sundown’s Promise (for Taiko and Orchestra) that will feature the percussive flair of Japanese taiko drummers JASC Tacoma Taiko, led by Tatsu Aoki. The concert will conclude with Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront, a work composed for Elia Kazan's Academy Award®-winning 1954 film.

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