The Spirit of ‘76: The Music of Revolutions

The first of two concerts celebrating America’s Semiquincentennial, this performance presents music associated with peoples’ fights for freedom from tyranny.

Concert Daniel Auber, Overture to La Muette de Portici
Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 3 “Eroica,” 2nd Movement
William Billings, Chester
Jean Sibelius, Finlandia
Virgil Thomson, Fugue and Chorale on “Yankee Doodle”
Joan Tower, Made in America
Adolphus Hailstork, Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 1812 Overture