Lady Brion

Lady Brion is listed as narrator for the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra's Pops in the Park concerts, speaking the text in Copland's Lincoln Portrait alongside a program of American concert and popular music. Beyond this appearance, no verified biographical details are available.

This program centers on American identity and history. The main event for a narrator is Copland's Lincoln Portrait, where a spoken voice reads from Abraham Lincoln's own words and letters over an orchestral backdrop that shifts between somber reflection and open, hymn-like strength. Around that piece, listeners will hear a wide arc of American music: patriotic standards like The Star-Spangled Banner and America the Beautiful, band marches by Sousa, orchestral color from Gershwin and Bernstein, a searching set of variations by Ives, and Louis Ballard's Blood and War, which draws on Native American subject matter tied to the history of Wounded Knee. The evening closes with lighter, cinematic fare in the Harry Potter suite. Expect the narrator's role to anchor the concert's more serious historical moment while the orchestra carries the rest.