
Asheville Symphony Masterworks 5: Nightingale
GRAMMY-winning mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard delivers luminous interpretations of Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and West Side Story highlights with full orchestra, taking advantage of the church’s resonant acoustics during the Masterworks program.
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Young orchestral strings and winds from the Asheville Symphony Youth Philharmonic accompany three-time GRAMMY-winning mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard in a celebratory residency program of classical vocal repertoire at Asheville High School's auditorium.

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