in Washington D.C. The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963. The purpose of the march was to advocate for civil and economic rights for African Americans. At the march, Martin Luther King Jr., standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, delivered his historic I Have a Dream speech in which he called for an end to racism. The march was organized by A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, who bui
William Tell Overture by Gioachino Rossini. William Tell is an opera in four acts by Gioachino Rossini to a French libretto by Etienne de Jouy and Hippolyte Bis. Rossini had high hopes of this opera about a legendary Swiss bowman.
West Side Story is an American musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, libretto by Stephen Sondheim, and conception and choreography by Jerome Robbins. It was inspired by William Shakespeare 's play Romeo and Juliet.est Side Story took this one step further by combining the classic and the hip. Robbins' energetic choreography and Bernstein's grand score accentuated the satiric, hard-edged lyrics of Sondheim, and Laurents' capture of the angry voice of urban youth.