On the Town, Three Dance Episodes; Trouble in Tahiti, concert version
7:30 pm
Friday, February 2, 2018
Tucson Symphony
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Jose Luis Gomez, conductor; Sasha Cooke, mezzo; Kelly Markgraf, bass baritone; University of Arizona Vocal Jazz Trio
A program of musical theater opens with Shostakovich’s orchestration of a song from a Russian musical based on the tune, “Tea for Two” and continues with Bernstein dances from On the Town and finally the concert version of Trouble in Tahiti, his one-act opera from the early ‘50s about life in suburban America.