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Gershwin, Marsalis & Bartók
September 26-28, 2025
Program

HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Carolyn Kuan, music director


Gershwin, MARSALIS &
BARTÓK

Friday, September 26, 2025 / 8 PM
Saturday, September 27, 2025 / 8 PM
Sunday, September 28, 2025 / 3 PM
Belding Theater, The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts


CAROLYN KUAN, conductor
Jarrod Briley, tuba


PAUL DUKAS
(1865 – 1935)

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice



 WYNTON MARSALIS
 (b. 1961)

Concerto for Tubist and Orchestra
   I. Up!: Allegro
   II. Boogaloo Americana
   III. Lament
   IV. In Bird’s Basement: Behop

Jarrod Briley, tuba



-INTERMISSION-




BÉLA BARTÓK
(1881-1945)

Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19



GEORGE GERSHWIN
(1898-1937)

An American in Paris

The post of Music Director is endowed by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation.

We kindly request that you refrain from using flash photography and video recording during the performance, however we 
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The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council, the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, and with support from the Department of Economic and Community Development, Connecticut Office of the Arts which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.  


The 2025-26 Masterworks Series is presented by

The 2025-26 Masterworks Series is also sponsored by
The Elizabeth M. and 
Harriette M. Landon Foundation