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.
Get tickets: www.capitalphilharmonic.org - or - 800-514-3849
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Patriots Theater at the War Memorial, 1 Memorial Dr, Trenton, United States
