What powerful dream would compel you to travel by wagon and foot across the entire country? Across the Great Plains and deserts, through the Rocky Mountain passes? More than 500,000 people set out on such a journey on the Oregon Trail, California Trail, and Mormon Trail. Whether on long, perilous journeys or wherever one calls home, music has communicated joy and provided a means for survival.

This All-American program—performed by the True Concord Choir and Chamber Players with soloist Metropolitan Opera star Will Liverman—includes Copland’s Old American Songs, featuring Shall We Gather at the River and the beloved Simple Gifts, as well as folk songs by Stephen Foster, considered the father of American music, and Spiritual arrangements by William Grant Still, known as Dean of African American Composers. Standing shoulder to shoulder with these giants is William Billings and the Sacred Harp tradition, perhaps the oldest form of truly American music.

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