Performance features World Premieres by University of Chicago composers including University Professor Augusta Read Thomas on Saturday, May 5, at 8 p.m. in Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, Hyde Park.
Metropolitan Opera soprano Winifred Faix Brown and mezzo-soprano Jessye Wright are featured soloists with University of Chicago Symphony Orchestra, University Chorus, and Motet Choir to perform 19th-century German and Italian Operatic Masterpieces.
Songs, choruses, and orchestral excerpts highlight Gershwins' innovative synthesis of European orchestral techniques and American jazz, blues, and folk music idioms in this spring concert.