Leonard Slatkin conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in an “All-American” program

Tonight at 7:00 on the Evening Concert on WILL-FM 90.9 it’s the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Guest Conductor Leonard Slatkin leads the group in Barber’s “Overture to the ‘School for Scandal’” and Gershwin’s “An American in Paris”. Also on the program, Anne Akiko-Meyers is the violinist in Mason Bates’ “Violin Concerto”.

Tuesday July 7: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO #15-27)

Slatkin: Gershwin: An American in Paris

Leonard Slatkin, conductor; *Anne Akiko Meyers, violin

Barber: Overture to the School for Scandal

W. Schuman: Symphony No. 6

*Mason Bates (American, b. 1977) Violin Concerto

Gershwin: An American in Paris

[CSO fill: Ives: The Unanswered Question;

Three Places in New England (Susanna Mälkki, conductor)]