History comes full circle when Stéphane conducts the suite from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess just blocks from the opera’s rumored Miami Beach birthplace. Honegger’s Pacific 231 “picks up steam” when played alongside Jean Mitry’s Palme d’Or-winning short film of the same name.

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Arthur Honegger (1892-1955)
Approx. Duration: 6 minutes
Pacific 231, H. 53 (1923)

John Adams (b. 1947)
Approx. Duration: 4 minutes
Short Ride in a Fast Machine (1986)

Ziwei Ma

Guillaume Connesson (b. 1970)
Approx. Duration: 24 minutes
A Kind of Trane Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra (2015)

There is no other
Ballade
"Coltrane on the Dancefloor"

Steven Banks

Intermission - 20 minutes

Carlos Simon (b. 1986)
Approx. Duration: 15 minutes
Four Black American Dances (2023)

Ring Shout
Waltz
Tap!
Holy Dance

George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Approx. Duration: 23 minutes
Catfish Row: Suite from Porgy and Bess (1936)

Catfish Row
Porgy Sings
Fugue
Hurricane
Good Morning, Sistuh