March 21, 2024

America's Wonders

A 3D and Musical Adventure Exploring America's National Parks and Exciting Cities

is a unique cinematic and musical celebration, giving audiences the opportunity to see striking 3D film by McGillvray & Freeman while an orchestra takes them on a journey through America.

During the first half of the program, concertgoers will witness the wonder of watching the sunrise over the Grand Canyon while the orchestra performs Grofe’s Grand Canyon Sunrise and Cloudburst, or four new American commissions for while gazing up at the canopies of the Redwood Forests, famous rock formations of the West or flying over the Appalachian Mountains The second half, tenor Adam Fisher leads the orchestra in a string of classic pop songs about iconic American cities while they experience sights like New York’s Times Square, the jazz and lights of Las Vegas, Chicago‘s Washington Park and much more.

Keith Lay, composer

The Augusta Symphony

Music Director: Dirk Meyer

Augusta, Georgia

March 21, 2024 7:30PM

This promotional video was produced during the initial build. At that juncture we planned on including Copland’s “Appalachian Spring” in the music – but that piece was not made a part of the program, I’m guessing because of licensing restrictions. It does include the third “Grofe’s “Grand Canyon Suite”, and a different arrangement of the fourth, “Shenandoah” – the fifth is an excerpt of my own composition, “Green”. And, except for Neil Diamond’s “America” and “America the Beautiful”, all of the city songs are included, the difference being that the fantastic Canadian singer Adam Fischer sings throughout the second half.

In 2019, Princeton Entertainment premiered America`s Wonders in Cincinnati, Ohio with the famed Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. After its groundbreaking debut, America`s Wonders traveled to Salt Lake City, Utah. Critics from the Utah Review and Front Row Reviewers identified America`s Wonders as an “exquisite piece of art”, “an artistic marvel of its own merits”, “a literal feast for the eyes and ears, unlike anything I have ever experienced”, and it “has to be seen to be believed.”

The Covid19 pandemic cancelled the tour, as it had put a stop to all indoor entertainment in 2020. In March 2022, the show began ramping up once again, and will eventually cross the country as a recognized feature of the 250th year celebration of the United States.

About Princeton Entertainment

Princeton Entertainment’s producing signature is the creation of innovative productions combining the talents of popular recording artists, entertainment franchises with orchestras and other elements. Princeton’s tours, appealing to cross-generational audiences often reach five continents. Over its history, Princeton’s clients, touring productions, and co-producers include: Andrea Bocelli, Justin Timberlake, Cher, Aretha Franklin, James Taylor, Nana Mouskouri, Harry Belafonte, Idina Menzel, Joan Rivers, Linda Ronstadt, Liza Minelli, Pokémon: Symphonic Evolutions, The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses, Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, John Williams, Charlotte Church, Denyce Graves, Raul Esparza, The Irish Tenors, Sir James Galway, Marvin Hamlisch, John Lithgow, Star Wars: In Concert, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, San Diego Symphony, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s.

Princeton Entertainment’s other producing and presenting partners include: The U.S. White House, Saturday Night Live, Universal Music, Carnegie Hall, and UNICEF.

The music of "America's Wonders"

“America’s Wonders” has gave me an opportunity to create “Green” to accompany inspiring imagery of lush redwood forests and spacious mountain vistas . It is a seven minute composition placed second from the end of the first half. Other composers on our team and their new music are Thiago Tiberio: “Water”, Judson Green: “Sandstone” , Don Hart: “Mountains” and Ed Kasses:“Concert Credits”

The music of the first half of the concert expresses the immense beauty of our American National Parks. Audiences enjoy the music along with spectacular imagery shot by MacGillvray Freeman in true large-format stereo cinematography. To experience the depth of space and color of nature those stereo images contain happens through 3D Live/Liminal Space‘s award-winning cutting edge technology .

The second half of “America’s Wonders” explores our country’s exciting cities. Opera singer Adam Fisher takes the audience on a “tour” of famous American cities with songs. Adam’s voice is a buttery baritone with a gorgeous extended range.

Princeton commissioned fresh arrangements of these songs from composers Thiago Tiberio and Don Hart, heard on the first half. Don McLean’s “Vincent” ends the show with a sweet arrangement for orchestra by Brian Finley, followed by Ed Kasses’, the CEO of Princeton Entertainment, “Concert Credits”.