Western Symphony Orchestra Presents: Lee, Finzi, Barber, and Dawson

Disability Accommodations

Equal Opportunity Institution. 24+ hours advance notice is appreciated for accommodations.

Please come and join in the celebration as the Western Washington University Symphony Orchestra gives its first in-person performance in nearly a year and a half!

Our program includes the world premiere of Circulation by Sum Yee Lee, winner of the inaugural WWU Composition Competition. Joining her are two winners of the 2021 Concerto Competition, clarinetist David Bissell and soprano Olivia Pedroza, performing Gerald Finzi’s Five Bagatelles for Clarinet and Orchestra, and Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915.

Closing the program is William Dawson’s revelatory Negro Folk Symphony, one of the great, unsung masterpieces of American music.

This is an evening not to be missed!

Program

Sum Yee Lee: Circulation (WWU Composition Competition Winner)
Gerald Finzi: Five Bagatelles (David Bissell, clarinet)
Samuel Barber: Knoxville, Summer of 1915 (Olivia Pedroza, soprano)
William Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony

This concert is free and open to the public