Rafael Padrón, guitar
Chee Weng Yim, guest conductor
Robert Carnochan, director
The Frost Wind Ensemble explores music inspired by American politics, including Warren Benson’s The Leaves are Falling, composed after President Kennedy’s assassination; John Adams’s Short Ride in a Fast Machine and The Chairman Dances, and Jonathan Newman’s Sowing Useful Truths. Frost guitar professor Rafael Padrón premieres Stephen Goss’s Guitar Concerto.