Concert 05
A Slash of Blue
America, in blue.
The season closes in color: fanfares, wide rivers, a flash of Sousa, and Frank Ticheli’s Blue Shades. Van Cliburn prizewinner Evren Ozel joins the WSO for Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.
Inspired by Emily Dickinson’s “A Slash of Blue”
- Joan Tower · Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No. 6
- Sousa · The Stars and Stripes Forever
- Frank Ticheli · Blue Shades
- Steve Heitzeg · Mahkato Wakpa (Blue Earth River)
- Gershwin · Rhapsody in Blue (1942)Evren Ozel, Piano