Organization

Princeton Festival

Conductor

Rossen Milanov

Singer

Steven Banks

Saxophone

Orchestra

Princeton Symphony Orchestra

Opening Weekend Forward Into Light

Princeton

United States

Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall

Opening Weekend Forward Into Light: Forward Into Light Kirkland Snider (+2 More)

Public

Forward Into Light

Saxophone Concerto

Negro Folk Symphony

Approved

Steven Banks, saxophone
Dechopol Kowintaweewat, violin
Julian Sawhill, viola
Zizai Ning, cello

I. Allegro (0:00)
II. Adagio (7:00)
III. Rondeau (10:56)

Recorded by Skillman Music

W.A. Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F Major | Steven Banks, saxophone and members of the Zorá QuartetW.A. Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F Major | Steven Banks, saxophone and members of the Zorá Quartet

Key Notes Musical notes

Saxophonist Steven Banks is winner of the prestigious 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grant.
Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Forward Into Light was inspired by the American women suffragists and is a meditation on perseverance, bravery, and alliance. 
William Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony was premiered in 1934 by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and was one of the first full-length works by a black composer to be performed by a major US orchestra.

English

Opening Weekend Forward Into Light by Kirkland Snider, Tomasi, H., Dawson, William L., Fra (2023/2023), Dirigent Rossen Milanov, Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall, Princeton, United States

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