Independence Day Highlights on WFMT

All day long on July 4, WFMT will celebrate Independence Day. Here are some of the highlight performances and recordings!

• 8am hour: Selections from Aaron Copland’s Billy the Kid
• 11am hour: Selections from Virgil Thomson’s Louisiana Story
• 3pm hour: Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, From the New World
• 5pm hour: George Gershwin’s An American in Paris
• 6pm hour: A Salute to John Philip Sousa
• 10pm hour: Florence Price’s Symphony No. 4 in D minor
• 11pm: Best of Studs Terkel — Georgia Sea Island Singers, an African American ensemble that travels the world to share the songs, stories, dances, games, and language of their Gullah heritage.