Ticket Information
This concert is free, though tickets are required. Due to the high demand, tickets to this concert go quickly. Typically, all tickets for this performance are distributed by noon on the day they are made available to the public. There will a limit of four tickets per household.
About the Concert
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.”
The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 2022 Community Service Awards will be presented as part of this concert.
- 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
Performing Artists
- The Cleveland Orchestra
- Vinay Parameswaran, conductor
- Jacqueline Echols, soprano
- Tony Sias, narrator
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Chorus
- Dr. William Henry Caldwell, director
Broadcast Details
The performance will be livestreamed free on the Orchestra’s Adella app, Adella.Live, and youtube.com/clevelandorchestra and broadcast live on 90.3 WCLV Classical 104.9, 89.7 WKSU, on ideastream.org, and on the Ideastream Public Media app.
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