Enjoy this performance from almost anywhere in the world via LIVE@jacobs (https://liveatjacobs.music.indiana.edu/)!Repertoire Shostakovich: Festive Overture, Op. 96 (1954)Milhaud: Concerto for marimba, vibraphone, and orchestra, Op. 278 (1947)Still: Symphony No. 1 ('Afro-American') (1930/69)About the Conductor American conductor Anthony Parnther is in his sixth season as music director of California's San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra. As conductor of the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, Parnther led its sold-out Carnegie Hall debut, showcasing the world premiere of I Can by Grammy-winner Jon Batiste. A master of multiple genres, Parnther has conducted many of the world's preeminent artists, from Joshua Bell, Lynn Harrell, Jessye Norman, and Frederica von Stade, to Imagine Dragons, John Legend, Avenged Sevenfold, Wu-Tang Clan, Metro Boomin and Rihanna. Recent engagements include collaborations with a host of orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Chineke! Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and many more. Dedicated to amplifying traditionally underrepresented voices, Parnther has reconstructed and performed orchestral works by Margaret Bonds, Duke Ellington, Zenobia Powell Perry, Florence Price, William Grant Still, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. As well as leading LA Opera's world premiere of Tamar-kali's oratorio We Hold These Truths and Long Beach Opera's revival of Anthony Davis's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Central Park Five, Parnther has premiered and recorded works by Batiste, Kris Bowers, Chanda Dancy, Davis, Adolphus Hailstork, Marian Harrison, Philip Herbert, Daniel Kidane, Gary Powell Nash, James Newton, Perry, Price, Taylor, George Walker, Errollyn Wallen, James Wilson, and John Wineglass. Among today's foremost film conductors, Parnther helms recording sessions for many of the world's top international feature films and television series, working in close collaboration with some of the most decorated media composers on the scoring stages of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Nashville, Budapest, Glasgow, and London. Recent projects include Avatar: The Way of Water, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Encanto, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Nope, Creed III, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, Tenet, American Dad!, Oppenheimer, Turning Red, StarWars: The Mandalorian, Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett, and League of Legends.