COPLAND An Outdoor Overture
PRYOR Blue Bells of Scotland
MARSHALL Canco del Mar (WORLD PREMIERE)
DAUGHERTY A Florida Story “A Celebration of Vero Beach” (WORLD PREMIERE)
FUCHS Atlantic Riband

Alex Regazzi, trombone
Mary Anne Kruger, soprano
Amy Cofield, soprano
Michael Daugherty, guest composer
Christopher Marshall, guest composer

This amazing concert will include three of the most popular and fun works in American repertoire, Grofe's "On the Trail" from The Grand Canyon Suite, Aaron Copland's stirring An Outdoor Overture, and George Gershwin's romp, Cuban Overture.

An orchestral showpiece by Kenneth Fuchs, Atlantic Riband evokes the struggle and victory of ocean-crossing immigrants to America, inspired by the SS United States‘ record-breaking maiden voyage.

Audience favorites, sopranos Mary Anne Kruger and Amy Cofield, will return to the stage together to present the World Premiere of Christopher Marshall’s evocative, Cancó Del Mar.

Vero Beach is celebrated during Daugherty's A Florida Story, a work for narrator and orchestra that recounts the story of Vero Beach pioneer, Waldo Sexton. Narrating the work is its author, Indian River County Poet Laureate (and grandson of Waldo Sexton), Sean Sexton. From notes and correspondence, the love story of Waldo Sexton and his bride Elsebeth comes to life in a bygone Florida one hundred years in the past -- and amidst struggles in the small "frontier town."