I Dream a World with New World Symphony
Sat, Feb 08
|New World Center, MTT Performance Hall
Delighted to be working with the incredible New World Symphony on a concert filled with African-American trailblazers like Julia Perry and William Dawson
Time & Location
Feb 08, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
New World Center, MTT Performance Hall, 500 17th St, Miami Beach, FL 33139, USA
About the event
Groundbreaking composers, a dramatic hymn and the American spirit...
Explore the rich artistic output of Black artists who bridged the Harlem Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement, creating musical beauty during a war-torn era while finding greater acceptance in Europe than their own country. Conductor Jeri Lynne Johnson and mezzo-soprano Briana Hunter lead Julia Perry’s Stabat mater, a dramatic hymn that launched Perry’s flourishing career across continents. William L. Dawson infused his Negro Folk Symphony with the hopeful spirituals from his childhood, while the “Dean of African American Composers”—William Grant Still—displays his version of the American spirit in his Festive Overture.