COPLAND An Outdoor Overture
GERSHWIN Cuban Overture
MARSHALL Canco del Mar (WORLD PREMIERE)
DAUGHERTY A Florida Story “A Celebration of Vero Beach” (WORLD PREMIERE)
FUCHS Atlantic Riband
GROFE "On the Trail" from Grand Canyon Suite

Mary Anne Kruger, soprano
Amy Cofield, soprano
Michael Daugherty, guest composer
Christopher Marshall, guest composer
Sean Sexton, narrator

Travel coast to coast with your Space Coast Symphony Orchestra in a gripping program that celebrates the beauty, power, and mystery of nature. Aaron leads your orchestra in Kenneth Fuchs exciting work, Atlantic Riband, inspired by the SS United States‘ record-breaking maiden voyage.  Atlantic Riband evokes the struggle and ultimate victory of ocean-crossing immigrants to America in an orchestral showpiece of power and splendor.   The rousing program also features two world premieres, from composers R. Michael Daugherty and Christopher Marshall.  Sopranos Mary Anne Kruger and Amy Cofield return to the stage together to present Marhsall’s evocative, Canco Del Mar.  A Florida Story, “A Celebration of Vero Beach,” tells the love story of W.E Sexton and his bride Elsebeth in a narrative describing Florida one hundred years in the past and life in a small frontier town.  The work will be narrated by Indian River Poet Laureate, Sean Sexton. The concert is rounded out with three of the most popular and rousing works in American repertoire, Grofe's "On the Trail" from The Grand Canyon Suite, Aaron Copland's stirring An Outdoor Overture, and George Gershwin's romp, Cuban Overture.