2018-19
18 Seasons
Beethoven 5, rising young conductors, and notable new works can be heard in this season's concerts.
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Morton Gould Star-Spangled Overture from American Ballads
Episode 1
American Panorama launched with Morton Gould's creative re-imagining of the National Anthem.
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
February 8, 2019 -
17:27Episode 2Joan Tower "Sequoia"
Episode 2
Composer Joan Tower celebrates the mighty forests in this work from 1981.
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
February 8, 2019 -
Leonard Bernstein Three Meditations from "Mass"
Episode 3
Principal Cello Wei Yu was the soloist in this work drawn from Leonard Bernstein's "Mass," which presented the Catholic Mass in a new guise in the early 1970s.
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Wei Yu, cello
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
February 8, 2019 -
Virgil Thomson Suite from "The Plow that Broke the Plains"
Episode 4
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
February 8, 2019 -
32:08Episode 5Ferde Grofé "Grand Canyon" Suite
Episode 5
Gershwin collaborator Ferde Grofé was also a well-known composer, such as with this work, hugely popular in the mid-20th century.
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
February 8, 2019 -
07:21Episode 6Encore: Daniel Slatkin "In Fields"
Episode 6
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
February 10, 2019
