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Songs in the Key of Life at 50: Reimagined
A One-Night-Only Concert Experience at USC’s Bovard Auditorium Musical Direction by Greg Phillinganes Directed by Jason King Part of the USC Thornton School of Music Series Stevie Wonder: Beyond Category With Support from USC Visions & Voices and the Recording Academy’s Black Music Collective Marking the 50th anniversary of one of the most ambitious and influential albums in the history of popular music, Songs in the Key of Life at 50: Reimagined brings Stevie Wonder’s landmark 1976 recording to the stage for a one-night-only concert at USC’s Bovard Auditorium.
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Thornton Winds
Sharon Lavery, Conductor Bernadene Blaha, Piano Morton Gould - American Salute Harrison Chiang - Dreams of a Faded Wonder George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue (arr.
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Baroque Sinfonia: Celebrating Adam Gilbert
Directed by Rotem Gilbert & Jason Yoshida The USC Baroque Sinfonia celebrates the 20th anniversary of Adam Gilbert as director of the Early Music Program, the program’s 40th anniversary, and the next 40 years to come.