We Are America | Frost Wind Ensemble
September 6 @ 4:00 pm
Michael Hancock conducts the Frost Wind Ensemble in the opening concert of the Frost Music Live season, celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States through works by American composers.
The program includes Aaron Copland’s “A Lincoln Portrait,” William Schuman’s “New England Triptych,” and Adolphus Hailstork’s “American Guernica,” with each work exploring different periods and perspectives in American musical history. The ensemble will also perform John Williams’ arrangement of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
The concert examines the American experience through orchestral wind music, ranging from Copland’s portrait of Abraham Lincoln to Hailstork’s response to the 1963 bombing of Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church.