[Anthony
R Parnther]
John
Malveaux of www.MusicUNTOLD.com sends this news:
The Southeast Symphony Orchestra with Anthony Parnther Music Director and Conductor
will offer a uniquely relevant and significant orchestral African
American History Month celebration on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012 at Marsee
Auditorium El Camino College Center for the Arts. Maestro Parnther
described the program to MusicUNTOLD as follows:
My
Lord What a Mourning (elegies on the Death of martin Luther King
Jr.) - Adolphus Hailstork
Big
Medisonal Ceremonial - Gary Powell Nash
Subtle
Hue of Blackbirds -
Renee Baker (who is flying in from Chicago to Premiere and Guest
Conduct the work)
(Maestro Parnther) commissioned 4
spirituals to be realized for Large Symphony Orchestra and soloists
Amazing
Grace, A City Called Heaven, My Eye is On the Sparrow, My Lord What a
Morning
A Major work for Large Symphony Orchestra and Narrator
New
Morning for the World: Daybreak of Freedom - Joseph Schwantner
New
Morning for the World: Daybreak of Freedom is
Joseph Schwantner’s 1982 tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The
idea of a work honoring Dr. King was first suggested to Schwantner in
1981 by Robert Freeman, Director of the Eastman School of Music.
Schwantner writes:
“I
was excited by the opportunity to engage my work with the profound
and deeply felt words of Dr. King, a man of great dignity and courage
whom I had long admired. The words that I selected for the narration
were garnered from a variety of Dr. King’s writings, addresses, and
speeches, and drawn from a period of more than a decade of his life.
These words, eloquently expressed by the thrust of his oratory, bear
witness to the power and nobility of Martin Luther King Jr.’s
ideas, principles, and beliefs. This work of celebration is humbly
dedicated to his memory.”
New
Morning for the World was composed under a commission
from the American Telephone and Telegraph Company for an East coast
tour undertaken by the Eastman Philharmonia. The orchestra first
performed the work on 15 January, 1983, in the Concert Hall of the
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in Washington, D.C., and was
narrated by the renowned Pittsburgh Pirates baseball star, Willie
Stargell. Following the premiere performance, the work was
subsequently introduced in Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburgh, and
Rochester, N.Y.
The
work has received hundreds of performances by major orchestras
throughout the United States and has been narrated by such noted
individuals as: Correta Scott King, Yolanda King, James Earl Jones,
Maya Angelou, Danny Glover, Robert Guillaume, Alfre Woodard, and
Vernon Jordan
John Malveaux
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