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Celebrating Women Composers

Presented by Civic Orchestra of Chicago at Hinsdale Central Auditorium, Hinsdale IL

Mar 11 2024

The Civic Orchestra of Chicago performs a FREE community concert at Hinsdale Central High School featuring the works of Montgomery, Brouwer and Price.

Florence Price’s joyous and sumptuous Symphony No. 1 concludes a multigenerational program of works celebrating Women’s History Month. When the CSO premiered Price’s symphony in 1933, she became the first Black woman to have a piece played by a major American orchestra. Mead Composer-in-Residence Jessie Montgomery portrays a bustling urban streetscape in Coincident Dances, while Margaret Brouwer’s Remembrances is a poignant elegy.

Civic Orchestra of Chicago
Andrew Grams, conductor