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.
Mendelssohn composed this overture in 1826 for performance at home, where it was first played as a piano duet by the composer and his sister Fanny. He immediately orchestrated the overture and the first public performance was given on February 20, 1827, in Stettin. Mendelssohn did not compose the remaining incidental music for A Midsummer Nightâs Dream until 1843. It was first performed privately in Potsdam on October 14, 1843, and publicly four days later in Berlin.