On Saturday, June 4 at 7:00 p.m., WCLV and WKSU will once again broadcast live the given by The Cleveland Orchestra. The concert will be led by Associate Conductor , featuring soprano , 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 鈥� such as Dolores White, Mary D. Watkins, Carlos Simon, Brian Raphael Nabors, William Grant Still, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 鈥� as well as music in the African American spiritual tradition. The program concludes with James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson鈥檚 beloved hymn 鈥淟ift Every Voice and Sing.鈥�
Program
- DOLORES WHITE Celebration
- MARY D. WATKINS Soul of Remembrance
- TRADITIONAL Ev鈥檙y Time I Feel the Spirit
- TRADITIONAL Deep River
- CARLOS SIMON Fate Now Conquers
- BRIAN RAPHAEL NABORS Iubiolo
- TRADITIONAL Cert鈥檔鈥檡 Lord
- TRADITIONAL Lord I Want to Be a Christian
- TRADITIONAL Seek the Lord
- WILLIAM GRANT STILL Summerland from Three Visions
- TRADITIONAL He鈥檚 Got the Whole World
- TRADITIONAL A City Called Heaven
- SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Ballade
- JOHN ROSAMOND JOHNSON Lift Every Voice and Sing