Great Performances

Ellis Island: The Dream of America with Pacific Symphony

THIRTEEN’s Great Performances and Pacific Symphony, led by music director Carl St.Clair, pay tribute to America’s history with a performance of composer Peter Boyer’s “Ellis Island: The Dream of America,” a Grammy-nominated contemporary classical work celebrating the historic American immigrant experience.

Ellis Island: The Dream of America with Pacific Symphony

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THIRTEEN’s Great Performances and Pacific Symphony, led by music director Carl St.Clair, pay tribute to America’s history with a performance of composer Peter Boyer’s “Ellis Island: The Dream of America,” a Grammy-nominated contemporary classical work celebrating the historic American immigrant experience.

  • The story of an immigrant child's journey to Ellis Island: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The story of an immigrant child's journey to Ellis Island

    S45 E27 - 3m 42s

    In this excerpt, Camryn Manheim performs the words of 10-year-old Russian immigrant Katherine Beychok, who traveled to America in 1910 and wrote about her experience seeing the Statue of Liberty for the first time.

  • Behind the Scenes with Composer Peter Boyer: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Behind the Scenes with Composer Peter Boyer

    S45 E27 - 2m 13s

    In this behind-the-scenes clip, Peter Boyer gives insight into how the orchestration, dramatic readings and historic visuals work in tandem to make his Grammy-nominated composition "Ellis Island: The Dream of America," a moving musical experience.

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