FLYING HIGH WITH LEGENDARY AVIATOR
Czech Orchestra to Celebrate Local Hero
KC Studio
Patrick Neas
January/February 2023
In July 1937, aviator Amelia Earhart, born and raised in Atchison, Kansas, attempted to become the first woman to fly around the world. Among Earhart’s many accomplishments, circumnavigating the globe was not to be one of them. She and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean during the last leg of their epic journey. Eighty years after she was declared dead, Earhart continues to capture the public’s imagination, perhaps now more than ever.
The Harriman-Jewell Series will celebrate the life and legend of this American hero when it presents Laurie Anderson’s “Song for Amelia Earhart” with the Filharmonie Brno conducted by Dennis Russell Davies Feb. 18 at Helzberg Hall. Anderson herself will narrate and play violin.