MUSIC: Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra: American Voices
Date and Time
Sunday Mar 15, 2026
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
Location
The Music Hall, 28 Chestnut Street, Portsmouth, NH 03801
Fees/Admission
Adults $31-$51; Students $15
Contact Information
Erin Dubois, General Manager Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra
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Description
Full of color and contrast, our winter concert program features three modern composers whose works capture America’s many voices. Composer-violinist Jessie Montgomery’s brief one-movement Starburst for string orchestra is a multi-dimensional soundscape of instrumental colors. In her groundbreaking Symphony No. 1, Florence Price, a Black female composer who graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston in 1903, blends romantic influences with sounds and rhythms derived from slave music and jazz.
The program culminates with George Gershwin’s iconic Rhapsody in Blue, a musical kaleidoscope of America’s vast melting pot, featuring Seacoast-based Mike Effenberger on piano. Ticket holders are invited to the pre-concert talk by Maestro John Page at 1:45.
