The evening concert celebrates the monumental impact of gay composers on American musical life. The program culminates with excerpts from Leonard Bernstein’s Songfest, originally written for the 1976 Bicentennial but also features Aaron Copland, Jennifer Higdon, Cole Porter, Rufus Wainwright & many others.

Copland | Fanfare for the Common Man, for brass & percussion
Higdon | Amazing Grace, for strings
Wainright | Cigarettes & Chocolate Milk, arr. Wadsworth for voice & orchestra
Barber | A Hand of Bridge, for four singers & orchestra
Wuorinen | Percussion Quartet (mvmt II)
Coward | Some Day I’ll Find You
Britten | Tell Me the Truth About Love
Porter | The Tale of the Oyster
Tchaikovsky | Mini-Suite from The Nutcracker, arr. for chamber ensemble by Wadsworth
Bernstein | Selections from Songfest, for six singers & orchestra