Sarasota Orchestra – Bernstein & Barber

American music in several accents shapes this Van Wezel Masterworks program, with Giancarlo Guerrero leading the Sarasota Orchestra. Grammy-winning violinist Stella Chen is soloist in Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, with its two songful movements and a perpetual-motion finale. Around it come John Adams' Doctor Atomic Symphony, distilled from his opera about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the first atomic test; "Motherboxx Connection" from Carlos Simon's Tales: A Folklore Symphony, which draws on African American stories; and Bernstein's symphonic suite from On the Waterfront, the only score he wrote for a film.