Concerts

To fantasize is to imagine the impossible. In Bernstein’s iconic West Side Story, two lovers reach across the uncrossable boundaries of race and culture. Ulysses Kay conjures variations on a theme that does not yet exist. And Alice Mary Smith breaks through 19th century gender norms to become England’s first female symphonist. Leonard Bernstein: Overture…

In the face of fear and the wake of the unimaginable, music offers the courage to rise up and shout out truths to which words cannot speak. Nkeiru Okoye responds to the events of September 11, 2001 with “a march to acknowledge those fighting on behalf of our safety, and yet a sparkling celebration of…

All music is created in a specific time and place. Aaron Copland's emergence from a dance hall in 1930s Mexico were the first steps toward his place as an iconic composer of American music. Margaret Bonds’ symphonic variations on the spiritual, "I Want Jesus to Walk with Me,” center on events in which black Alabamians…