On Saturday, June 4 at 7:00 p.m., WCLV and WKSU will once again broadcast live the 42nd Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Concert given by The Cleveland Orchestra. The concert will be led by Associate Conductor Vinay Parameswaran , featuring soprano Jacqueline Echols, and Tony Sias as narrator. A highlight of this annual event is the Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Chorus, an all-volunteer community chorus directed by Dr. William Henry Caldwell.
This uplifting concert will showcase the music of prominent Black composers — such as Dolores White, Mary D. Watkins, Carlos Simon, Brian Raphael Nabors, William Grant Still, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor — as well as music in the African American spiritual tradition. The program concludes with James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson’s beloved hymn “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”
Program
- DOLORES WHITE Celebration
- MARY D. WATKINS Soul of Remembrance
- TRADITIONAL Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit
- TRADITIONAL Deep River
- CARLOS SIMON Fate Now Conquers
- BRIAN RAPHAEL NABORS Iubiolo
- TRADITIONAL Cert’n’y Lord
- TRADITIONAL Lord I Want to Be a Christian
- TRADITIONAL Seek the Lord
- WILLIAM GRANT STILL Summerland from Three Visions
- TRADITIONAL He’s Got the Whole World
- TRADITIONAL A City Called Heaven
- SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Ballade
- JOHN ROSAMOND JOHNSON Lift Every Voice and Sing