Michael Daugherty: Mount Rushmore, Radio City & The Gospel A;

GRAMMY Award-winning composer
Michael Daugherty explores three icons
of 'The Greatest Generation', a
turbulent period of adversity and
achievement in the United States of
America spanning the Great Depression
of the 1930s through the Second World
War. Mount Rushmore is a dramatic
oratorio inspired by the monumental
sculpture of four American presidents
carved into the Black Hills of South
Dakota. Radio City is a symphonic
fantasy on the legendary Arturo
Toscanini, who conducted the NBC
Symphony Orchestra in live radio
broadcasts heard by millions across
America. The Gospel According to Sister
Aimee is an organ concerto inspired by
the rise, fall and redemption of religious
celebrity Aimee Semple McPherson.
Under the masterful baton of Music
Director Carl St.Clair, the renowned
Pacific Symphony is joined by Pacific
Chorale, one of America's greatest
choirs, and GRAMMY Award-winning
organist Paul Jacobs.