CleveScene.com: Tickets for Cleveland Orchestra's Rescheduled MLK Celebration Concert Will Be Available Saturday Morning

 Photo by Roger Mastrioianni/Cleveland Orchestra 

The free concert will now take place in June 

Cleveland Scene

By Vince Grzegorek

May 11, 2022

Those who don't score tickets or can't attend in person can catch the livestream on the Orchestra’s Adella app, Adella.Live, or on YouTube at youtube.com/clevelandorchestra. The concert will also be broadcast live on 90.3 WCLV Classical 104.9, 89.7 WKSU, on ideastream.org, and on the Ideastream Public Media app.

On tap will be works by prominent Black composers including Dolores White, Mary D. Watkins, Carlos Simon, Brian Raphael Nabors, William Grant Still, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Here's the schedule of performances:

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