They know about the powerful oppressing the weak. From the moment he took on the role in 1967, he could draw on inspiration close to the story. His grandfather lived in a town that was held by Russia and Austria at different times, and he was intimately acquainted with the oppression of the Jews. Bikel, who was born in Austria in 1924 and has lived and acted in Israel, has had many successes, including creating the role of Captain Von Trapp in the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music. The program will include Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and Darius Milhaud's Creation of the World.
Admission is free.
The free concert features works by Brahms, Haydn and Holst. Read more about the concert band in next Sunday's Preview. Friday night, the Leonore Quartet will give us a preview of its upcoming concert in Italy in front of Michelangelo's David. The Leonore's concert at 8 p.m. Friday in the Singletary Center for the Arts will be the same all-American concert the celebration's organizers requested, including works by Charles Ives, Aaron Copland and Steve Reich. E-mail this story to a friend.