Donald Lee III conducts two California premieres of romantic music by Black composers and Beethoven's 5th

BARS will perform Joel Thompson's To Awaken the Sleeper, which uses texts by gay author James Baldwin and was co-commissioned by nine orchestras including the London Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Detroit Symphony, and Atlanta Symphony. BARS will also perform Damien Geter's Sinfonia Americana, an exploration of the "American Sound" with "a nod to Black American Culture.” The concert will conclude with the most famous symphony in the world, Beet...