Kodak Hall Series Presents: Gateways Music Festival Orchestra

Gateways Music Festival in association with Eastman School of Music feels right at home in Kodak Hall. The cornerstone of this program will be William Levi Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony. “I've not tried to imitate Beethoven or Brahms, Franck or Ravel—but to be just myself, a Negro,” William Dawson remarked in a 1932 interview. “To me, the finest compliment that could be paid my symphony when it has its premiere is that it unmistakably is not the work of a white man.”