Landscape with Rainbow, Robert S. Duncanson, 1859
Music and Art
from over a Century of Americans of African Descent
Featuring the
Baha’i Temple Choir and Friends, Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra, Visual Artists, and Racial Justice Organizations in the North Shore
Philip Simmons and the Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra
BAHA’I HOUSE OF WORSHIP
100 LINDEN AVENUE
WILMETTE, IL 60091
FREE ADMISSION
The Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra performs its third concert for Black History Month and fifth collaboration with the Baha’i House of Worship Choir. The 2023 theme of Black History Month is “Black Resistance”
Orchestral program
Overture to Treemonisha - Scott Joplin (arr. D.A. Seidenberg)
Adoration - Florence Beatrice Price (arr. P. Simmons)
Folk Songs - William Grant Still
Novellette No. 4 - Samuel Coleridge Taylor
Freedom Trilogy - Traditional (arr. I. Levinson)
O Thou Compassionate Lord - Van Gilmer
Total Praise - Richard Smallwood
VAN GILMER
Choral Director, composer, and vocalist Van Gilmer leads this program of music and community engagement.
Click for more information about Van Gilmer and his work with American Music Festivals
For 25 years, American Music Festivals has been reaching out to communities through orchestral concerts that bring people together to experience the fine arts and humanities. Promoting cultural exchange we embrace diversity, celebrating our differences and discovering what we share as human beings--moving forward a conversation about equity and inclusion.
American Music Festivals is committed to preserving and furthering orchestral heritage. Our music making has attracted an amazing team of musicians, community advocates, and outreach professionals to our cause. It has helped us build partnerships and professional relationships with organizations and individuals around the world.
As we get ready for our 22-23 Season of Chicago concerts by the Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra, we welcome your support and participation with us.
American Music Festivals promotES cultural exchange,
presenting concerts that celebrate diversity
and preserve orchestral heritage.
2021-22 was an amazing season for American Music Festivals and the Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra. We presented concert collaborations at DuSable Museum of African American History, Benito Juarez Community Academy, Ukrainian National Museum, the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Copernicus Center, the Wilmette Theatre, and Saint Sophia Bulgarian Orthodox Church. By bringing orchestral music to inner-city communities and new venues throughout Chicagoland, American Music Festivals’ programs reflect our diversity, history, and culture. Through music we are moving forward, together.
Our concerts tell a story that speaks to the power of music to move people, help change perspectives, and to challenge norms. American Music Festivals is excited to continue to help provide professional orchestral programming throughout the many communities that make up Chicagoland, and around the world.
Thanks for being a part of our vision.
Maestro Leonard Slatkin and Philip Simmons
American Music Festivals
has been committed to cultural exchange Since 1997.
Please join US AS WE BRING OUR UNIQUE VIEWPOINT TO CLASSICAL MUSIC PROGRAMMING.
CULTURAL EXCHANGE
In the United States and abroad we work with communities to share culture, celebrating our differences.
ORCHESTRAL HERITAGE
American Music Festivals helps preserve orchestral traditions--with a sensitivity to all the humanities.
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Our collaborative events bring people TOGETHER, creating understanding and friendship.
ARTISTIC AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Through concerts and related outreach, American Music Festivals articulates cross cultural and intergenerational connections.
Sir Georg Solti Memorial Festival, April 2016
