Coming to America: A Musical Journey

Cary Lecture

Jona than McPhee, director of the Lexington Symphony, will give a talk entitled “Coming to America: A Musical Journey”. It will include musical examples and interludes with the help of members of the orchestra. As he says in the introduction on our flyer, he plans to introduce “great music during this period of reflection on the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution [that] illustrates the cultural richness immigrants have infused into our communities and society”.

The people of Lexington have always been the intended audience for our four free annual lectures, and we’ve found that the Internet has brought us many visitors from neighboring towns. This is the second of two Cary Lectures in honor of the anniversary of the Battle of Lexington. The first was Professor Philip Deloria on October 5, 2024 (“The Five Things Indians Say”), and the third will be the Honorable Stephen Breyer, retired Justice of the Supreme Court, on May 3, 2025, for which there will be a separate entry on this site.