Celebrate and explore the early 20th century’s dynamic intellectual and cultural movement The Harlem Renaissance at NWS's annual multi-disciplinary festival, I Dream A World Festival. This year’s edition of the festival embarks on a tour through interwar Europe to meet the Black musicians who transformed art and culture on both sides of the Atlantic. Over the course of two weeks, the New World Symphony will present an exciting program that explores the pivotal moment in music that shaped early jazz and inspired composers like Ravel and Stravinsky.

Festival Event Lineup

Friday, February 3, 2023 at 7:30 PM and 9:30 PM
Welcome to Bricktop's: A Night of Jazz and Blues in 1930s Paris

Saturday, February 4 at 7:30 PM and Sunday February 5 at 2:00 PM
I Dream a World: Symphonic Persuasion

Tuesday, February 7 at 7:30 PM
The Sound Heard Around the World: The Music of James Reese Europe

Wednesday, February 8, 2022, at 7:30 PM (Truist Pavilion; Free, ticket required)
Transatlantic Conversations: Black Renaissance Pianism across the Pond

Friday, February 10, 2022, at 7:30 PM (Lyric Theater of the Black Archives, Overtown)
I Dream a World: Chamber Music in Historic Overtown

Sunday, February 12 at 11:30 AM
Concert for Kids: I Dream a World

Wednesday, February 15 at 8:00 PM
SoundScape Film Screening: The Harlem Hellfighters Great War

Black History Month