A journey through the American experience in songs from colonial days to the present, with lots of Pittsburgh connections! Songs by Gilda Lyons (Composer of A New Kind of Fallout, 2015), Daron Hagen (Composer of Shining Brow, 2015), Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Roger Zahab, Margaret Bonds, Stephen Foster, Evan Neely, Stephen Sondheim, Charles Ives and more. Great American poetry by great American authors like Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, and Walt Whitman is sung by SummerFest’s rising generation of Young Artists with OTP Music Director Robert Frankenberry in the intimate Beaux Arts Ballroom on Wednesday 15 July at 7:30PM.