Castleton Festival, Part V

July 25, 2011, 9:00 pm

Hylton Performing Arts Center, Manassas, VA
Castleton Festival Orchestra & Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano
150th Anniversary of The Battle of Bull Run Concert
Conductor: Lorin Maazel

Featured performances:

150th Anniversary of the First Battle of Manassas featuring Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano. A concert of American music commemorating the First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run).

Grofe        On the Trail from Grand Canyon Suite

Copland     Appalachian Spring, Blake Richardson, conductor

Bernstein    Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, Joshua Weilerstein, cond.

Songs by Stephen Foster, (Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano)

  Come Where my Love Lies Dreaming (orch. by A. Luck)

  Beautiful Dreamer (orch. by A. Luck)

  Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (orch. by A. Luck)

  Oh!  Susanna (orch. by J. Kessler)

Gershwin       An American in Paris (arr. by Campbell-Watson)