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Date

Wednesday, Jun 19, 2024 6:30PM

Location

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Name

Songs of Freedom

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Grant Park Orchestra
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Karen Slack, soprano

Ludwig van Beethoven – Overture to Fidelio
Margaret Bonds – The Montgomery Variations
Jessie Montgomery – Five Freedom Songs
Ludwig van Beethoven – Leonore Overture No. 3 

Music and the struggle for freedom go hand in hand. Here, Carlos Kalmar pairs overtures written for Beethoven's French Revolution-era drama Fidelio with two works championing freedom and social justice in our own country: Jessie Montgomery's Five Freedom Songs, based on the historical anthology Slave Songs of the United States, and Chicago-composer Margaret Bonds's Montgomery Variations, dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

One Night Passes will be available on May 1 at 10 am.

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