The Walker Lecture Series opens its Spring 2026 season with the Freese Brothers Big Band! In the spring of 1946, as members of the Greatest Generation continued returning home from Europe and the Pacific, they and their families listened to the soundtrack

The Walker Lecture Series opens its Spring 2026 season with the Freese Brothers Big Band! In the spring of 1946, as members of the Greatest Generation continued returning home from Europe and the Pacific, they and their families listened to the soundtrack of the war years. Radio programs and record players offered tunes that had built an emotional bridge from fox holes, ships and air bases to anxious living rooms back home. The Freese Brothers Big Band offers an 80th anniversary salute to the Greatest Generation and the Home Front with tunes that will transport audiences back to the first peaceful springtime for America after four years of war and worry.-