Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra: Gershwin, Williams & Rachmaninoff

August 12 | 8 PM
August 13 | 6 PM

Eun Sun Kim, conductor
Thomas Hooten, trumpet

Gershwin: An American in Paris
John Williams: Trumpet Concerto
Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1 in D minor

It is difficult to imagine the world without Rachmaninoff’s later masterpieces but, had he listened to the critics of his 1st Symphony, we would be living in it. Thankfully, this greatest of all melodists persevered and still influences composers on every shore. Gershwin’s bustling depiction of a Parisian vacation shares an all-American first half with the trumpet concerto of fellow genre-defying legend John Williams.