7:00 p.m. Composer’s Chat with Clint Needham
Croasdale Concert
Best known for his work with the Grammy-nominated Punch Brothers band and Grammy-winning bluegrass band Nickel Creek, as well as his frequent collaborations with such crossover legends as Edgar Meyer, Béla Fleck, and Yo-Yo Ma (with whom he appears on the new CD The Goat Rodeo Sessions), Chris Thile joins Orpheus as soloist and composer in his bristling and fresh Mandolin Concerto.
Also on this all-American program are Aaron Copland’s masterpiece, Appalachian Spring (1944), and an exciting orchestral excursion into the musical wealth of Leonard Bernstein’s landmark Trouble in Tahiti (1952), in an arrangement by Paul Chihara.
The season’s third Project 440 composer is Clint Needham, whose work has been recognized with two ASCAP Morton Gould Awards, the William Schuman Prize/BMI Student Composer Award, and the Aspen Music Festival’s Jacob Druckman Prize.