American composer Stephen Schwartz is one of those multitalented individuals who dips his fingers into many streams and stirs up a flood of successes. As a composer and lyricist, he has created projects for Broadway, film, television and the opera house, and accumulated six Tony Award nominations, three Grammy Awards, a Drama Desk Award and three Academy Awards.
To celebrate his 65th birthday and the 10th anniversary of “Wicked,” conductor Steven Reineke and the National Symphony Orchestra will perform some of the composer’s songs that are known and loved by fans everywhere. They will be joined by vocalists Jennifer Laura Thompson, Julia Murney, Jeremy Jordan and Norm Lewis, and the Washington Chorus.
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