Americans We
Americans We
Celebrating Our Shared Story in Music
Taking place just two weeks before the Semiquincentennial, AFB celebrates the diverse collection of voices that make up our country on its 250th birthday. The program will include works from composers from different regions with a range of ethnicities and styles. To celebrate the anniversary, AFB will commission a new work for wind band from Georgia composer Christopher Kyle Green. A graduate of Kennesaw State University, Green has built an impressive collection of music. He was also one of AFB’s student composers at the beginning of the program.
We are excited to invite you to experience the concert in a new venue, the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center at Morehouse College. This state-of-the-art performance venue features a beautiful auditorium, a large stage, more plentiful and comfortable seating, and plenty of nearby parking. We can’t wait to see you there!
Tickets are $20 general admission, $15 seniors, $10 students.
The concert will also stream live from AFB’s YouTube channel.
The concert program features:
“Mother of a Revolution” by Omar Thomas
“Conversations” by Chandler Wilson
“She Dares, She Leaps” by Erika Svanoe
“American Overture for Band” by Joseph Wilcox Jenkins
“Elegy for a Young American” by Ronald Lo Presti
“Fanfare for Freedom” by Quincy Hilliard
Premiere: “We the People” by Christopher Kyle Green
“Adoration” by Florence Price
“From Atlanta to the Sea” by Frank Duarte
“Early Light” by Carolyn Brewer
“Promise of Living” by Aaron Copland
“The Soulful Sixties” arr. Michael Brown
ACCESSIBILITY
An accessible entrance is available with a flat path from the parking deck behind the parking area behind the theater to the front entrance. The standard complement of symphonic percussion will be in use. The concert will not have any special lighting or audio effects. For accessibility questions, please email development@atlantafreedombands.com.
| GETTING HERE PARKING is available along West End Ave, in a grassy lot near the theater, and in the campus parking deck (entrance on Greensferry Ave SW). Open Google Maps > | VIEW THE PROGRAM Concert programs are available the week before the show so you can read more about the pieces and composers. The program will be available closer to the concert > |
| DINNER AND A SHOW Support our favorite neighborhood restaurants before the show. Make your pre-show dinner plans at these fine locations. View our Recommendations > | WATCH THE STREAM All of AFB’s 33rd season concerts will stream live on our YouTube channel. The stream will be available for a short time after the concert. Stream the Concert > |
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“Americans We” is supported in part by the City of Atlanta – Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs. Funding for this program is also provided by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners under the guidance of Fulton County Arts & Culture. This program is supported in part by Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. Georgia Council for the Arts also receives support from its partner agency – the National Endowment for the Arts.
