The inspiration for this opening concert of the ’26-’27 concert season comes from the 100^th anniversary of the opening of Route 66. Stretching almost 2,500 miles from Chicago, IL to Santa Monica, CA, this highway and others like it have made automobile travel more accessible and allowed us to more fully appreciate the breadth of our nation, one mile at a time! Consider this concert as an answer to the musical question most often queried from the back seat of the family car….. “Are we there, yet?”! By performing the music of John Philip Sousa, Leonard Bernstein, Cait Nishimura, Alfred Reed, Carolyn Bremer, Robert Russell Bennett, Michael Daugherty and Jerome Kern, the PCB celebrates everything from sailors taking shore leave in the Big Apple, to families appreciating the majesty of our National Parks and even an eventful romp across the Florida Everglades!