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NSO Summer Music Institute Orchestra Concert
Program:
- Carlos Simon, Festive Fanfare and Overture
- Charles Griffes, The White Peacock
- Aaron Copland, Appalachian Spring
- Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5
This year marks the 33rd anniversary of the Kennedy Center/National Symphony Orchestra National Trustees Summer Music Institute (SMI), a three-week festival of orchestral and chamber music for young people ages 15–20 at the Kennedy Center.
Musicians from 17 states, Puerto Rico, and 8 countries are participating in this year's SMI. The program consis