Overview

XIAN ZHANG conductor

CHRIS KOMER horn

AARON DWORKIN narrator

DANIEL BERNARD ROUMAIN New Work (World Premiere, New Jersey Symphony Commission)

VARIOUS Jazz French Horn Concerto (World Premiere, New Jersey Symphony Commission)

     Movements by VIVIAN LI, GARY MORGAN, CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE, PAQUITO D’RIVERA

AARON DWORKIN/COLERIDGE-TAYLOR The American Rhapsody

GERSHWIN An American in Paris

We end the season with fireworks made in America. DBR kicks off the festivities with his exciting new work. The sparkling talent of New Jersey Symphony Principal Horn Chris Komer shines in a new concerto written for him by four leading jazz composers. Aaron Dworkin, the visionary founder of the Sphinx Organization which lifts up young Black and Latinx musicians, narrates Coleridge-Taylor’s moving Rhapsody with the words of our nation’s first president. And the City of Lights swirls around you in Gershwin’s beloved classic. 

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