Stanford Summer Symphony Performs Works By Florence Price, Vaughan Williams, Saint-Saëns, and Debussy

On Friday, July 29, 2022, the Stanford Summer Symphony performed to an enthusiastic and appreciative audience at the Bing Concert Hall, under the direction of Paul Phillips. The program featured Symphony No. 5 in D Major by Ralph Vaughn Williams, Camille Saint-Saëns’ Violin Concerto No. 3 with Lisa Saito, violin soloist, and Claude Debussy’s Rapsodie for Saxophone and Orchestra with Ricardo Martinez, alto saxophone soloist. The program also included Claude Debussy’s symphonic poem Prelude to “The Afternoon of a Faun”, and American composer Florence Price‘s Dances in the Canebrakes.