Shakespeare inspired many thrilling orchestral odes. Music Director Jader Bignamini leads dances from Bernstein’s West Side Story and Tchaikovsky’s Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture, two starkly different takes on star-crossed lovers. Moved by Othello and Macbeth, Coleridge-Taylor and Verdi created dramatic masterworks of their own. In his DSO debut, pianist Wayne Marshall performs Gershwin’s breakout hit Rhapsody in Blue.
Program
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
GEORGE GERSHWIN
Rhapsody in Blue
SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
Othello
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Ballet Music from Act III of Macbeth
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture
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