Join us for a family-friendly afternoon concert as the Norwalk Symphony presents some of the best-loved and most appealing American orchestral classics.  Enjoy George Gershwin’s legendary tone poem, American in Paris, featuring Gershwin’s soaring melodies as well as car horns to capture the composer walking down Parisian boulevards. Members of the Principal Orchestra of the Norwalk Youth Symphony join the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra in the hauntingly beautiful slow movement from William Grant Still’s Afro-American Symphony, the first symphony written by a Black composer to have been performed by a major American orchestra.  Be excited by the talent of LIna Elwood, pianist and 15-year old winner of our 13th Annual Concert Competition who will perform the first movement of Concerto No. 2 in C minor, op. 18 by Sergei Rachmaninoff with the full orchestra. The program is rounded out by Aaron Copland's iconic Lincoln Portrait, narrated by Craig Melvin, Anchor of NBC's Today Show. The work closes with these immortal words:  “That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

All performances are held at the Norwalk Concert Hall at
Norwalk City Hall,
125 East Avenue, Norwalk, CT