Events

Name: Grant Park Festival presents Five Freedom Songs featuring Soprano Karen Slack
Start: 2024-06-19T19:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-06-19T21:00:00-04:00
Location: Jay Pritzker Pavilion

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Grant Park Festival presents Five Freedom Songs featuring Soprano Karen Slack

Wednesday, June 19 20247:30pm EST

Tickets & More Info

featured work:: Five Freedom Songs

presenter:: Grant Park Orchestra; (312) 742-7647; patronservices@gpmf.org; https://www.grantparkmusicfestival.com/

venue:: Jay Pritzker Pavilion; 201 E Randolph St,
Chicago, IL 60601 United States + Google Map; https://www.jaypritzkerpavilion.com/

event category:: Performances

PROGRAM

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

DESCRIPTION

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.