Current Area
When & Where
Program
Samuel Barber: Overture to School for Scandal
Leo Sowerby: Prairie
William Grant Still: African American Symphony
George Gershwin: Of Thee I Sing
John Alden Carpenter: Sea Drift, Symphonic Poem
William Schuman: American Festival Overture
Description
Journey back to the decade of the Grant Park Music Festival's birth. This timely and revealing exploration of American music from the 1930s will be presented along with an historical overview by City of Chicago Cultural Historian, Tim Samuelson.