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Rock Hill Symphony Orchestra: Variations on America

Pre-concert Talk at 6:30 p.m.; Concert begins at 7:30 p.m.
Byrnes Auditorium at Winthrop University

Christopher James Lees, Conductor
Byron Johns, Horn

Ives: Variations on America
Bernstein: Overture to West Side Story
Cassarubios: Herencia
Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1

Rock Hill Symphony Orchestra opens its 9th season with an Americana program that combines Charles Ives’ inventive “Variations on America,” with Leonard Bernstein’s Overture to West Side Story, along with Spanish-American composer Andrea Cassarubios’ elegant and haunting original work for strings, titled “Herencia” or “Heritage.” Charlotte Symphony Orchestra’s Principal Horn, Byron Johns, adds dazzling beauty in Strauss’ Horn Concerto No. 1.