USA at 250 years

Celebrate 250 years of American independence with a concert featuring U.S. composers who helped shape the country’s cultural identity through creativity, innovation, and a bold spirit of expression. This special evening highlights a range of American music through instrumental performances that reimagine familiar works in distinctive settings for solo piano, duo piano, violin and piano, and jazz ensemble.

Performances include music by George Gershwin, Amy Beach, Florence Price, and Leonard Bernstein, along with iconic American songs reimagined through jazz ensemble arrangements and improvisation by the MSU Professors of Jazz.

Generously sponsored by April Clobes and Glen Brough. The entire West Circle Series is underwritten by Joanne and Bill Church.

MSU artists include pianists Deborah Moriarty, Zhihua Tang, and Ralph Votapek; violinist Yvonne Lam; and the MSU Professors of Jazz: Randy Napoleon, guitar; Xavier Davis, piano; Carmen Bradford, voice; Rodney Whitaker, bass; Randy Gelispie, drums; Erena Terakubo, tenor saxophone; Michael Dease, trombone; and Anthony Stanco, trumpet.