For Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras’ performance of Edgard Varèse’s Amériques, I wanted to channel the work’s avant-garde complexity and the composer’s inspiration from bustling 1920’s New York.




For Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras’ performance of Edgard Varèse’s Amériques, I wanted to channel the work’s avant-garde complexity and the composer’s inspiration from bustling 1920’s New York.