Name: Joshua Weilerstein conducts Bernstein & Dawson | John Kimura Parker plays Gershwin
Start: 2025-05-29T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-05-31T00:00:00.000Z
Location: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Organization

Admin

National Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Joshua Weilerstein

Instrumentalist

Jon Kimura Parker

Piano

Orchestra

Joshua Weilerstein conducts Bernstein & Dawson | John Kimura Parker plays Gershwin

Washington D.C.

United States

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Joshua Weilerstein conducts Bernstein & Dawson | John Kimura Parker plays Gershwin: Negro Folk Symphony Dawson, William Levi (+2 More)

Public

Concert

Negro Folk Symphony

Rhapsody in Blue

West Side Story

Akshay C K

Approved

In November of 1934, 35-year-old African American composer William Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony brought a Carnegie Hall audience to its feet. Now, the NSO brings you the stirring symphony one New York critic called “the most distinctive and promising American symphonic proclamation which has so far been achieved.”

Joshua Weilerstein completes the program with quintessential music by two champions of the Great American Songbook: Leonard Bernstein’s ever-popular Symphonic Dances from West Side Story and George Gershwin’s jazz-infused Rhapsody in Blue featuring pianist John Kimura Parker.

English

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Ensemble