Heavenly Intonations: Musical Legacies

Name: Heavenly Intonations: Musical Legacies
Start: 2025-03-01T13:00:00-05:00
Location: 3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 19132

Schedule

Sat, 01 Mar, 2025 at 01:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

3822 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 19132 | Philadelphia, PA

Whether we can hear it or not, music hangs in the air at Laurel Hill East—heavenly intonations of the singers, musicians, lyricists, and composers buried within. Visit the gravesites of those who contributed in some way to the musical legacy of America. In some cases, we’ll even hear their work. This includes the composer who created the first serious American symphonic work and was also the first music critic in the United States; the woman who wrote the first words that Thomas Edison uttered into his recently invented phonograph; and the “Bruce Springsteen of the Early 20th– Century American Opera,” who riled up audiences everywhere from Philadelphia’s Academy of Music to Teddy Roosevelt’s White House to the opera houses of Australia.