Marin Alsop conducts Barber, Gershwin, and Rimsky-Korsakov — With Jean-Yves Thibaudet

In the summer of 2024, the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America (NYO-USA) embarks on a South American tour with the great Marin Alsop, and it's our pleasure to bring you their concert from São Paulo, Brazil — where the maestra is no stranger, having led the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra from 2012-19. She returns to the Sala São Paulo with the most talented young musicians from across the United States, leading them first in two great 20th-century American works — Samuel Barber's dramatic, lyrical Symphony No. 1, with a four-movement symphonic structure synthesized into one single movement; and Gershwin's ingeniously jazzy Rhapsody in Blue, performed with panache by the spectacular Jean-Yves Thibaudet — and then in a voyage across the high seas with Rimsky-Korsakov's beloved symphonic suite Scheherazade, full of instantly memorable melodies and infinite gradations of orchestral color.