Summary: Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO April 17-22. Capturing the glamorous excitement of 1920s Paris, Gershwin's An American in Paris is a modern American treasure. It is preceded by colorful, luxuriant masterpieces by his successors Samuel Barber and William Schuman. American violinist Anne Akiko Meyers gives the Chicago premiere of the Violin Concerto by CSO Mead Composer in Residence Mason Bates.
