Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs works by Copland, Tower, Higdon and Prokofiev

Marin Alsop is a champion of modern music and here leads her acclaimed orchestra in several American masterworks, including music by two of today's leading American composers: Joan Tower's Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, a brilliant response to the Aaron Copland classic (also on the program); and Jennifer Higdon's astonishing Percussion Concerto, featuring the "dazzling" (The Guardian, London) Colin Currie. Higdon scored double triumphs in 2010, taking home both the Pulitzer Prize in Music and a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition (for the Percussion Concerto).

Program:
Copland 'Fanfare for the Common Man'
Tower 'Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman'
Higdon 'Percussion Concerto'
Prokofiev 'Symphony No. 5'

Marin, Alsop, conductor
Colin Currie, percussion