Vermont Symphony Orchestra Presents
VSO: Béla Fleck and American Excellence
Main Stage
About
VSO’s 90th anniversary at the Flynn kicks off with an all-American program and two living greats: virtuoso banjoist Béla Fleck and composer Adolphus Hailstork. Fleck makes his East Coast debut with his catchy arrangement of Rhapsody in Blue for banjo, and Hailstork joins the VSO in person at the Flynn. This concert marks the VSO’s premiere performance of William Grant Still’s Symphony No. 1, with narrated epigraphs written by Paul Laurence Dunbar and other prominent Black poets.
The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. and is preceded at 6:30 p.m. by Musically Speaking, a free pre-concert discussion that provides entertaining insight into the evening’s program.
PROGRAM
Adolphus Hailstork - An American Port of Call
George Gershwin - An American in Paris
Rhapsody in Blue
William Grant Still - Symphony No. 1 (“Afro-American”)
