The Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra celebrates the range and vitality of American music. Bernstein's sparkling overture launches the program with irresistible theatrical energy. Soprano Sarah Joyce Cooper then brings her expressive voice to Griffes's atmospheric Three Poems of Fiona MacLeod and Barber's tender Knoxville: Summer of 1915. Conductor Eric Mahl closes the concert with Margaret Bonds's Montgomery Variations, a work of profound imagination and strength. Together, these four composers reveal an American sound that is playful, intimate, searching, and resolute.

Join us Sunday, April 11 at 2:00 PM at the Brooklyn Museum, or watch the livestream. Concert tickets include general admission to the Museum.

Program

LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Overture to Candide

CHARLES TOMLINSON GRIFFES
Three Poems of Fiona MacLeod, Op. 11
Sarah Joyce Cooper, soprano

SAMUEL BARBER
Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24
Sarah Joyce Cooper, soprano

MARGARET BONDS
Montgomery Variations