AMERICANS

This electrifying performance gives vivid testimony to the multifaceted partnership of James Gaffigan and the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and invites us to explore the conductor s American roots. The program features Leonard Bernstein s mischievous dances from West Side Story Charles Ives s spiritual Symphony No.3 the dramatically potent dissonance of Ruth Crawford s Andante for strings and Samuel Barber s boldly athletic Toccata for organ and orchestra.