Assad Trumpet Concerto with the Akron Symphony Orchestra

Composer Clarice Assad and trumpeter Mary Elizabeth Bowden introduce a work co-commissioned by the ASO, based on paintings by surrealist Gertrude Abercrombie. The evening takes inspiration from folk song and popular music, in Higdon’s “Reel Time” to American folk traditions at the heart of Montgomery’s “Strum.” Tchaikovsky echoes of Mozart and Brahms in “Souvenir de Florence” but in his own deeply personal voice.

ARTIST
Mary Elizabeth Bowden, trumpet

PROGRAM
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on “Greensleeves”
Jessie Montgomery – Strum
Clarice Assad – Bohemian Queen: Concerto for Trumpet and String Orchestra
Jennifer Higdon – Reel Time
Julia Perry – Prelude for Strings
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Souvenir de Florence

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