Masterworks 1: Season Debut
UNITY – American Mosaic & West Side Story
Des Moines Symphony
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Run Time:2 Hours and 10 minutes including one intermission -
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Student Rush:
Available for $5-10 on the day of the show. Valid for 1 ticket per ID. -
Please note only children age 5 and over with tickets will be allowed into the theater for this production.
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ABOUT THE EVENT
THE HARRIET S. AND J. LOCKE MACOMBER CONCERT
Celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary in this unforgettable evening! Kevin Put's Heartland and Iowa’s Linda Robbins Coleman’s In Good King Charles’s Golden Days set the stage for the sweeping American Mosaic by Peter Boyer and photographer/video artist Joe Sohm, complete with historic narration and dramatic images of American life on a giant screen above the Orchestra. The Harlem Quartet brings Michael Abels’ Urban Legends to life before Bernstein’s electrifying Symphonic Dances from West Side Story.
Joseph Giunta, conducting
Harlem Quartet, string quartet
The Fred & Charlotte Hubbell Visiting Artists In Residence
Kevin PUTS - Heartland Canons (Des Moines Symphony Commission 2022)
Linda ROBBINS COLEMAN - In Good King Charles’s Golden Days
Peter BOYER - American Mosaic (Co-commissioned with the National Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra for the Cincinnati Pops, Pacific Symphony & Williamsburg Symphony Orchestra)
Michael ABELS - Urban Legends
BERNSTEIN - Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
