UM Gusman Concert Hall. November 20, 2012. 8:00 p.m.
Terence Blanchard, artistic director of the Henry Mancini Institute at the University of Miami Frost School of Music, announced that the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra will present a dance-inspired program featuring Duke Ellington’s “Nutcracker Suite” at 8:00 p.m. on Friday, November 30 at UM Gusman Concert Hall in Coral Gables. The work is an upbeat multi-movement jazz interpretation of “The Nutcracker” by Tchaikovsky, created in 1960 by Duke Ellington and his musical collaborator Billy Strayhorn.
Entitled Terence Blanchard Presents: A Concert of American Music, the program will also feature Aaron Copland’s beloved “Appalachian Spring,” a ballet suite for 13 instruments inspired by ballet music that Copland composed for famed dancer and choreographer Martha Graham in 1944; plus two world premieres by Henry Mancini Composition Fellows, David Pegel (“The Pilgrim”) and Rafael da Lima de Piccolotto (“Asa, Zóio e Matulão”) that utilize the same instrumentation as Copland’s classic work.
Terence Blanchard will host a pre-concert talk at 7:15 p.m. for young people involved in the institute’s community outreach program, HMI Outbound. Scott Flavin, resident conductor of the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra and Stephen Guerra, managing director of the Henry Mancini Institute, will conduct the concert.
Tickets are general admission and priced at $15 for adults / $10 for seniors and children, and are on sale now via the Frost School’s website www.music.miami.edu, or by phone at 305.284.2400.
UM Gusman Concert Hall
1314 Miller Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33146
305.284.2400
www.music.miami.edu
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