AMERICAN DREAM

THU, DEC 14, 2023 | 7:30PM THE 92ND STREET Y

PERKINSON Sinfonietta No. 2 (Generations)

COPLAND Clarinet Concerto

Anthony McGill, clarinet

DVOŘÁK American Sinfonietta in F major (after String Quartet Op. 96)

Orchestrated by Orpheus

The luxurious strings of Orpheus expand Dvořák’s iconic American Quartet into a Chamber Symphony, magnifying the vibrant sounds rooted in spirituals and Native drumming. The authentic American language that Dvořák envisioned really flowered when jazz seeped into the concert hall, as in this Clarinet Concerto that Aaron Copland wrote for the “King of Swing” himself, Benny Goodman, performed here by Anthony McGill in his long-awaited Orpheus debut. Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s miniature symphony samples everything from Bach to pop as it paints an intergenerational portrait of an American family.