The George W. and Florence N. Adams Concert, endowed in perpetuity
Open Rehearsals
Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood
Thomas Wilkins conducts Coleridge-Taylor, Ellington, and Midkiff, featuring Jeff Midkiff, mandolin
Tanglewood
Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox/Stockbridge, MA
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Wilkins, conductor
Jeff Midkiff, mandolin
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Ballade in A minor
Jeff MIDKIFF Mandolin Concerto, From the Blue Ridge
Intermission
ELLINGTON Suite from The River
Gates open at 12pm
Performance Details
Jul 23, 2023, 2:30pm EDT
Program Notes & Works
Ballade in A minor
Mandolin Concerto, From the Blue Ridge
Suite from The River
The specific commission for Ellington’s ballet score The River was a request from Lucia Chase, co-director of the American Ballet Theatre, to celebrate the company’s 30th anniversary.
