Made in USA

My Program:

John Adams – Short Ride in a Fast Machine

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich – Violin Concerto

INTERMISSION

Samuel Barber – Adagio for Strings

Roger Sessions – The Black Maskers Orchestral Suite

The case for my program: This program consists of pieces written by American composers throughout the 20th century. These specific works have been chosen to exploit the noticeable differences and similarities present in American compositions looking from the present back to the days of a rising superpower.