Name: Songs Of Freedom
Start: 2024-06-19T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-06-19T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Admin

Grant Park Music Festival

Conductor

Carlos Kalmar

Orchestra

The Grant Park Orchestra

Singer

Karen Slack

Voice

Songs Of Freedom

Chicago

United States

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Songs Of Freedom: Fidelio Beethoven (+3 More)

Public

Concert

Fidelio

Montgomery Variations, for orchestra

Five Freedom Songs

Leonora Overture No. 3, op.72b

Sushant Karmakar

Approved

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.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble