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Kim Allen Kluge & Kathryn Kluge compose American Concerto

Composers: Kim Allen Kluge & Kathryn Kluge,
Conductor: Kim Allen Kluge,
Pianist: Thomas Pandolfi,
Alexandria Symphony Orchestra

American Concerto for Piano and Orchestra was composed by the husband and wife team of Kim Allen Kluge and Kathryn Kluge. The Concerto celebrates the melting pot of musical influences and ideals in America, which is a metaphor for who we are as a country.

You will hear folk-like melodies which follow in a long American musical tradition ranging from Stephen Foster to Aaron Copland. Jazz-tinged echoes of Gershwin and Cole Porter resound throughout the first movement in a nod to the American Songbook. The Concerto is infused with the aesthetic of the grand piano concerto, enlivened and refreshed by a pervasive cinematic sound.

The second movement is concerned with freedom– America’s profound association with the ideals of freedom and its need to be constantly rebirthed anew. This movement is inspired by the poetry of an imprisoned writer observing the beauty and freedom of the natural world from within his prison cell.

Night
Tall eucalyptus with a broad moon.
A star trembles on the water.
The sky white, silver.
Stones, flayed stones all the way up.
Near the shallow water you could hear
a fish jump twice, three times.
Ecstatic, grand orphanhood—freedom.
YANNIS RITSOS

The third movement travels through the expansive American landscape, taking us from the valleys, through the rivers and to the mountain tops. The concerto’s culminating mood is joyful and celebratory with fanfare, bell peals and most of all– melody.