AMERICAN DANCE PARTY

Saturday, March 1, 2025, 7:30pm
Sunday, March 2, 2025, 2:00pm

Nightingale Concert Hall
University of Nevada, Reno
1335 N. Virginia Street
Reno, NV 89512

Get ready to jam as the infectious rhythms and tunes of American greats like Ellington, Joplin, and Gershwin will have you dancing in your seats.  One of the concert's works get a Reno-themed multi-media treatment by Eve Allen Garza and RCO’s principal strings are featured as soloists in Delights and Dances, a work by Pulitzer-prize winner Michael Abels, known widely for his score to the film Nope.

Joplin (arr. TJ Anderson): Overture to Treemonisha
Bernstein (arr. Garth Sunderland): Fancy Free
Abels: Delights and Dances
Ruth Lenz & Margeaux Maloney, violins
Dustin Budish, viola
Peter Lenz, cello
Ellington (arr. Prustman) Three Songs of Duke Ellington for Chamber Orchestra
Choreography by Eve Allen Garza
Gershwin (arr. Farrington): I Got Rhythm variations
James Winn, piano

James Winn