Performing Artists
The Cleveland Orchestra
Stéphane Denève, conductor
Steven Banks, saxophone

A Frenchman in America, longtime Cleveland Orchestra guest conductor Stéphane Denève leads a spirited rendition of Gershwin’s An American in Paris, the iconic 1928 symphonic poem that inspired the Gene Kelly film. Denève also conducts two more works out of the Roaring Twenties by his countrymen Milhaud and Poulenc, as well as the Cleveland premiere of Guillaume Connesson’s saxophone concerto A Kind of Trane — inspired by the great John Coltrane and performed by the acclaimed Steven Banks.