American Stories: Porgy & Bess and more

Joan Tower: Made in America

Florence Price: Ethiopia’s Shadow in America

Conductor Ruth Ochs

George Gershwin: Porgy & Bess concert version for soprano baritone chorus & orchestra

Conductor Vinroy Brown

Heather Hill soprano Keith Spencer baritone

We’re thrilled to open our 11th season with a concert version of

George Gershwin’s iconic American opera Porgy & Bess in the

masterful arrangement by Robert Russell Bennett. Join us for

an unforgettable evening featuring guest artists soprano Heather Hill a rising

star of Broadway and opera and renowned for her role in the Broadway revival

of Porgy & Bess and baritone Keith Spencer known by our audience as the

visionary creator and star of our world-premiere production of Brothers

on Broadway.

Capital Singers Music Director Vinroy D. Brown Jr. having prepared the

30-voice chorus will conduct the combined orchestra soloists and chorus.

The evening will commence with orchestral works by two esteemed women

composers as conducted by Ruth Ochs. First Joan Tower’s 2008 Grammy

Award-winning Made in America followed by Florence Price’s Ethiopia’s

Shadow in America a recently rediscovered tone poem from 1932 that

masterfully evokes elements of the African-American experience.

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