STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK

Celebrate the Sounds of America on Sunday when the Wood River Orchestra presents a free Mother’s Day concert entitled “American Soundscapes.”

The orchestra will reel off a number of tunes covering the American landscape from the heady days of the Roaring Twenties to the foundation of the Great American Songbook.

The concert starts at 4 p.m. Sunday, May 10, at the Wood River High School Performing Arts Theater in Hailey’s Community Campus. And Moms will be honored with a small gift, courtesy of Grocery Outlet.

Conductor Brad Hershey’s “love letter to the American spirit” will include Aaron Copland’s “Hoedown,” which depicts the thrill of the rodeo, and his “Fanfare for a Common Man,” a pageantry of pomp and chivalry for the everyday men and women who built the nation.

The concert will also feature standards from George Gershwin and Duke Ellington evoking the vibrant spirit of Broadway and Harlem. And pieces by Jerry Brubaker and Soon Hee Newbold will conjure up sweeping vistas, majestic mountains and winding rivers threaded through by the rhythmic ostinato of the American railroad.

“With the jazz-inflected genius of Ellington and Gershwin and the cinematic expansiveness of Copland, Brubaker and Newbold, we are showcasing a sound that is uniquely ours,” said Hershey.

Even if you can’t make it to the concert, you can enter a Mother’s Day raffle for a hand crocheted tote made by violin player Lynn Flickinger; chocolates from the Sun Valley Chocolate Factory, a plant from Grocry Outlet, a book from Chapter One Book store, gift certificates from Hanger Bread, Power House Restaurant and Iconoclast Books and a bottle of wine from Rick Flickinger’s private cellar.

Raffle tickets are a mere $10 through 3:45 p.m. May 10, available at https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/wro-mothers-day-raffle

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