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MLK Celebration Concert 2022

MLK Celebration Concert | Roger Mastroianni
MLK Celebration Concert | Roger Mastroianni

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

 

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