Americans We: Celebrating Our Shared Story in Music

From the venue:

Atlanta Freedom Bands’ Concert Band will mark our nation’s 250th anniversary with a musical offering that features a diverse array of composers representing a wide array of American voices in music.  This will NOT be your typical patriotic concert.  We have something unique to offer our community.  Our concert celebrates the diversity, the varied voices, and shared stories that make up our country.  The music will challenge, inform, entertain, and delight.

The program’s centerpiece is the premiere of a work commissioned for the occasion, “We the People” by Christopher Kyle Green. 

The program features legendary composers such as Florence Price and Aaron Copland paired with today’s counterparts such as Erica Svanoe, Quincy Hilliard, Omar Thomas, and Chandler Wilson.  The selections tell the stories of women who dared to expand beyond their traditional roles, the achievements of the African American community, Marsha P. Johnson (an important early activist in the transgender community), and more.