CARL ST. CLAIR - conductor
Douglas Webster - baritone
Pacific Chorale - John Alexander, artistic director

Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
Herrmann: For the Fallen
Weill: Four Walt Whitman Songs
Gould: Amber Waves
Daugherty: Mount Rushmore (2010) for Chorus and Orchestra (World Premiere)

Music Director Carl St.Clair and the orchestra explore music by or honoring those Tom Brokaw described as “the greatest generation any society has produced” – highlighted by "Mount Rushmore," a new work commissioned especially for the 2010 American Composers Festival by Pacific Symphony.

Festival Prelude at 7 p.m. and post-concert discussion with documentarian George Stoney, composer-in-residence Michael Daugherty and host Joseph Horowitz.

FREE tickets for veterans; $20 tickets for their guests.
Advance reservation required. Call (714) 755-5799.

Read more about the American Composers Festival 2010: The Greatest Generation and the other festival programs on Feb. 1 and Feb. 9.

Join the discussion on our new blog at www.PacificSymphonyBlog.org.

Support
National Endowment for the Arts
American Express Philanthropic Fund
The Aaron Copland Fund for Music
Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc. New York, NY

Michael Daugherty is the Music Alive Composer-in-Residence with Pacific Symphony. Music Alive is a national residency program of the League of American Orchestras and Meet The Composer.

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