"Classical Echoes of American Life" Saturday Classics Concert

Festival City Symphony ends its Saturday Classics season with a portrait of the diversity of America as presented by four distinct musical voices. Roberto Sierra’s “La Salsa” and Leonard Bernstein’s “Symphonic Dances from West Side Story” will start and end the program, energizing audiences with their Puerto Rican rhythms. In between, works by Florence Price and Aaron Copland convey the trials, tribulations and celebrations of American ancestors in “Ethiopia’s Shadow in America” and “Our Town Suite”. Concert goers will be tapping their toes and riveted by the layered and complex harmonies that make up the fabric of American music.