red, white & rhapsody in blue
Celebrate your Memorial Day Weekend with a patriotic concert celebration!
Our program features great works by American composers George Gershwin,
Morton Gould, and Richard Hayman, the HFO Brass Quintet, and a performance by
Llewellyn Sánchez-Werner, an American rising star.
Who will be the “Guest Celebrity Maestro” on the podium for Sousa’s Stars & Stripes?
This concert benefits our Community Partner, Goodwill Industries of Central Illinois.
The Program:
Morton Gould ————— American Salute
George Gershwin ——— An American in Paris
Heartland Festival Orchestra Brass Quintet selections
Richard Hayman ———-- Pops Hoe Down
George Gershwin ———- Rhapsody in Blue
Llewellyn Sánchez-Werner, piano soloist
John Philip Sousa ———- Stars & Stripes Forever
The Stars And Stripes Forever
Let martial note in triumph float
And liberty extend its mighty hand;
A flag appears 'mid thunderous cheers,
The banner of the Western land.
The emblem of the brave and true.
Its folds protect no tyrant crew;
The red and white and starry blue
Is freedom's shield and home.
Llewellyn Sánchez-Werner
Llewellyn Sanchez Werner, piano
Winner, 2022 Concert Artists Guild Competition
“A gifted virtuoso” (San Francisco Chronicle) with “mesmerizing artistry and extraordinary ability to communicate” (The Post-Standard), Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner at 25 holds multiple degrees from Juilliard and Yale; was named a winner of the Concert Artists Guild 2022 Victor Elmaleh Competition and distinguished as a Gilmore Young Artist, an honor awarded to the most promising American pianists of the new generation; performed at the White House and Kennedy Center for Presidents Obama and Biden. His multi-faceted artistry has been featured on NPR, PBS, CNN International, the Wall Street Journal, and WDR-Arte. He received the Atlantic Council Young Global Citizen Award recognizing social action through music in Iraq, Rwanda, France, Canada, and USA; General Petraeus commended his “courageous humanitarian contributions through the arts…strengthening the ties that unite our nations.”
For more information, please visit LlewellynSanchezWerner.com