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The Paramount Theatre and Vermont Symphony Orchestra Present:

VSO’s 90th anniversary at the Paramount 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. 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, spoken by Ashley Snow. Conducted by VSO Music Director Andrew Crust.

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 with Vermont Public classical radio host Helen Lyons.

PROGRAM

Adolphus Hailstork    –    An American Port of Call

George Gershwin    –    An American in Paris

Intermission

George Gershwin    –    Rhapsody in Blue (arranged for banjo by Béla Fleck)

William Grant Still    –    Symphony No. 1 (“Afro-American”)

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Note there is a limited quantity of $10 student and music teacher tickets available for this concert.

This concert is generously co-presented with The Paramount Theatre.

We are thankful for sponsorship from The TD Bank Foundation, the Vermont Community Foundation Concert Artists Fund, Vermont Public, Vermont Humanities, the State of Vermont, and VSO’s Endowment Funds and JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) Fund.