TETON VILLAGE, Wyo. — This Friday and Saturday, the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra will perform Gershwin’s An American in Paris, John Williams’ Trumpet Concerto and Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5.
Gershwin’s bustling depiction of a Parisian vacation shares an all-American first half with the trumpet concerto of fellow genre-defying legend John Williams, performed by GTMF/LA Phil Principal Trumpet Thomas Hooten.
Prokofiev said about his Symphony No. 5, “I regard the Fifth Symphony as the culmination of a long period of my creative life. I conceived of it as glorifying the grandeur of the human spirit.”
GTMF’s Resident Conductor Jerry Hou will lead the orchestra.
Friday’s performance is from 8-10 p.m. with a pre-concert talk at 7 p.m. in the Barbara Furrer Goodman Memorial Garden near Walk Festival Hall’s north entrance. The concert on Saturday is from 6-8 p.m. and the pre-concert talk starts at 5 p.m.
Tickets are available here.