VSO Summer Tour: Grafton

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Celebrate the great outdoors and VSO’s 90th birthday with the 2024 Summer Festival Tour: Symphony of Stars! Join the orchestra for spectacular evenings of music by Sufjan Stevens, Margaret Bonds, Vermont’s own Erik Nielsen, John Philip Sousa marches, John Williams’ E.T. score, and more, plus spectacular solos from VSO’s musicians! Music Director Andrew Crust leads the ensemble featuring principal cello John Dunlop, principal clarinet Kelli O’Connor, and principal percussion D. Thomas Toner. Bring your picnic and relax under balmy summer skies with your Vermont Symphony Orchestra!

PLEASE NOTE: The rain site capacity for this event is SOLD OUT, but in the event of sunny skies, there will be tickets available for sale at the gate. There are also limited advance price tickets available at MKT Grafton in downtown Grafton, with tickets available on the 3^rd if the call to be outdoors is made.  

If you have questions, please call Grace Spain at 802-864-5741 ext. 110 or via email at grace@vso.org.

PROGRAM

Andrew Crust, conductor

• Francis Scott Key, The Star-Spangled Banner
• Jim Stephenson, Fanfare for Democracy
• George Green (arr. Cahn), Xylophonia (Dr. D. Thomas Toner, solo xylophone)
• Sufjan Stevens (arr. Atkinson), Suite from Run Rabbit, Run
• Gabriel Fauré, Élégie for Cello and Orchestra (John Dunlop, solo cello)
•  John Williams, E.T.: Adventures on Earth

INTERMISSION

• Erik Nielsen, Matt’s Tune, ballad for orchestra
• Frank Ticheli, Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra (Kelli O’Connor, solo clarinet)
• Margaret Bonds, Montgomery Variations
• Morton Gould, American Salute

We encourage you to bring:

• A picnic blanket or folding chairs
• Sunscreen & sunglasses
• Insect repellant
• Water
• Whatever you need to comfortably enjoy the outdoors

Sun umbrellas are welcome until the start of the concert. Flashlights are also suggested to help you find your way to your car after the sun has set. Smoking and animals (except assistance and service animals) are not allowed at any VSO show.

Rainsite: Horowitz Hall at Vermont Academy