Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

American Dream Concert Duration: 2 hours (includes intermission) 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 Dvorak’s iconic American Quartet into a Chamber Symphony, magnifying the vibrant sounds rooted in spirituals and Native drumming. The authentic American language that Dvorak 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.