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American Classics American Classics Bradford Conner and Benjamin Sears Artistic and Producing Directors American Classics is the Boston areas only organization devoted solely to the performance of American music giving voice to forgotten gems and newly discovered musical treasures in concerts of vocal and instrumental music. American Classics was founded in 1996 by The Camptown Ladies Mary Ann Lanier Sylvie Stewart Benjamin Sears Bradford Conner and Margaret Ulmer as a summer concert series at the Swedenborg Chapel in Cambridge. Concerts for American Music Week in November and a Christmas concert soon were added to the schedule. In 1999 American Classics moved to the Longy School of Music in Cambridge.