Music and the River

On Saturday, November 5th, 2011, The Chappaqua Orchestra will present Music and the River – a Musical Tribute to Mark Twain. For this multi-media event, The Chappaqua Orchestra will perform Virgil Thomson's epic film score simultaneously with the Depression era film The River. The orchestra will also perform Charles Ives' gorgeous tone poem The Housatonic at Stockbridge and beloved vocal excerpts from Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein's Show Boat. Twain's witticisms about the young Ives will be recounted by William Gerrard, who will also provide the narration for The River. Audience favorite Deborah Horne, soprano, and bass baritone, John Dominick III, will join Maestro Michael Shapiro and the orchestra in this celebration of American music and American river ways. The concert is presented in collaboration with the Chappaqua Library as part of Twain’s Domain, a month long celebration of the man and his work.