The Promises of Springtime
River Center Theatre for the Performing Arts 396 St. Louis Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802
It's an All-American season-closer for the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra. Legendary LSU Baseball coach Skip Bertman reads from former Major League Baseball Commissioner's Bart Giamatti’s "The Green Fields of the Mind," a bittersweet ode to America's favorite pastime, as the symphony plays the prose's musical accompaniment, Fred Sturm's Forever Spring.
Also on the program, Aaron Copland's cinematic Billy the Kid ballet and Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Leonard Bernstein's birth. $38–$72. brso.org.