Performing on Principal Oboe

Meet some of music’s boundary pushers and barrier breakers with a featured side-by-side performance with the next generation of musicians, the Lake Michigan Youth Orchestra. Relish a gem from female composer Fernande Decruck. The sounds of gospel, blues, and jazz meet the orchestral stage with Duke Ellington’s Black, Brown, and Beige, his musical illustration of African American history. Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue concludes the SMSO’s Mainstage season with the raucous and joyous energy of city life. 

Fernande Decruck
Suite Française

Georges Bizet
L'Arlésienne: Suite No. 2

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington
Black, Brown and Beige: Suite

George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue