Celebrated Soprano Lindsay Kesselman sings American composer John Corigliano’s powerful Mr.
Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan with the Piedmont Wind Symphony. A fantastic and
exuberant prologue precedes five searching and reflective monologues that form the core of the piece;
and the epilogue: Forever Young makes a kind of folk-song benediction after the cycle’s close. The inner
five songs trace a journey of emotional and civic maturation for a very moving musical experience.
Also being performed is James Barnes’ personal Third Symphony, commissioned by the US Air Force
Band, which progresses from the composer’s deepest darkness of despair in losing his baby daughter
Natalie all the way to the brightness, fulfillment and joy of his son Billy being born a year later.