Charles Ives’ Country Band March is a musical parody full of cheeky “mistakes” that make for a joyful, nearly jazzy, stroll through the Civil War-era songbook.

Valerie Coleman’s new orchestral concerto sees the trauma of the Jim Crowe South transformed by the boundless creativity of the Harlem Renaissance. “This is a piece that every American orchestra should play,” raves the New York Classical Review.

Originally from Los Angeles, Ryan Bancroft is a young conductor whose “sensitivity and precision” has been embraced by top orchestras across Europe and the U.K. (Bachtrack). He takes the podium for Aaron Copland’s Third Symphony, leading an evening of pure Americana that culminates in the populist hymn Fanfare for the Common Man.

Tickets start at $25.

Program

Ives: Country Band March
Coleman: Concerto for Orchestra, “Renaissance”
Copland: Symphony No. 3