Lungs of the City: Olmsted's Parks in Music

In May we will travel to New York City to present a new program, Lungs of the City: Olmsted’s Parks in Music. We are thrilled to be part of this collaborative program celebrating the 200th birthday of famed landscape architect and park and garden designer Frederick Law Olmsted. Like millions of other in the US and beyond, we feel a deep appreciation for and a strong connection to the work of Olmsted, whose legacy continues to live on in a multitude of spaces across the country.

Lungs of the City is a collaboration with Landscape Music, Juventas New Music Ensemble, and Michigan Technological University Department of Visual and Performing Arts. Composers from the Landscape Music collective, directed by Nell Shaw Cohen, have written new works inspired by Olmsted sites, and American Wild Ensemble, alongside performers from Juventas and Michigan Tech, will premiere these works in a variety of locations over the course of 2022. This project is a Celebration Partner of Olmsted 200, the official nationwide celebration of the Olmsted bicentennial led by the National Association of Olmsted Parks.

We will be performing this thoughtful and wonderfully colorful program in NYC at two Olmsted sites, Fort Tryon Park on May 27 and Prospect Park on May 28. We invite you to check out our Lungs of the City page here on our website and follow along as we provide updates on our social media feeds.