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Grammy-winning composer Steven Mackey comes to SFCM to work with the orchestra as they present his work, Urban Ocean—described as mysterious, deep, vast, powerful, and teeming with life. Mackey's residency will be known as the Andrew W. Imbrie Visiting Chair in Composition. The concert also features Gershwin’s An American In Paris, a jazz-influenced symphonic poem, and Brahms’ Symphony No. 1, which took 14 years for the composer to create, known for its stormy, passionate opening, its contrasting lyrical second and third movements, and triumphant, heroic finale. SFCM conducting student Chih-Yao Chang conducts Gershwin in this concert.