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.
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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.