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The Smith Day of Giving: April 11, 2025

The Smith Opera House is celebrating 130 years as the home for arts, culture and community. The Smith is Geneva Concerts' home venue for the performances we present. Please join us by supporting the Smith's Day of Giving, Friday, April 11.

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Our Next Event: Friday, May 2, 2025, 7:30 PM

The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

Andreas Delfs, Conductor
Tessa Lark, Violin

Program for the Evening

Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Bernstein: Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium)
Copland: Appalachian Spring
Gershwin: An American in Paris

Gershwin’s jazzy musical postcard highlights this program of American masters. Bernstein’s Serenade for violin sings of love, with each of the five movements of his violin concerto based on soliloquies by Greek philosophers.

Tessa Lark’s "sound is bright, with clarity of note. A wonderful warmth,"" says Gramophone. This all-American program also features Copland’s tender Appalachian Spring, the wild acceleration of John Adams’ Short Ride in a Fast Machine, and to close, Gershwin’s esteemed An American in Paris.

"Tessa Lark embodies joy in music making. She is a real master of our art."
– John Corigliano, composer

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Geneva Concerts' programs for 2024 and 2025 are made possible in part by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

This series is made possible, in part, by grants from the Williams Family Foundation and the Wyckoff Family Foundation, and by the friends of Geneva Concerts.

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