America: Honoring 250 Years
Celebrate America’s 250th anniversary as New Jersey Festival Orchestra opens its 2026–2027 season with an inspiring musical journey. Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait honors Abraham Lincoln’s enduring words through stirring orchestral music, while Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9,…
Here’s something worth circling on the calendar: the New Jersey Festival Orchestra kicks off its 2026 to 2027 season on September 26 at 7 p.m. with a program built around America’s 250th anniversary. The night pairs Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait,” which weaves Lincoln’s own words into the orchestral fabric, with Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World,” a piece that somehow still gives people chills after a hundred-plus years of familiarity. We pulled details from Morristown Green’s listing, so check there for tickets, pricing, and anything else we’d otherwise be making up.