More than 200 musicians from Ithaca College and the surrounding community will join forces on Monday, Jan. 22, to pay tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. The free concert in honor of the slain civil rights leader will begin at 8:15 p.m. in Ford Hall in the James J. Whalen Center for Music.
“In addition to a seamless collage of music, the presentation will feature images as well as spoken renditions of Dr. King’s words by Ithaca College Martin Luther King Scholars,” said composer Dana Wilson, producer of the event and the Charles A. Dana Professor of Music in the Ithaca College School of Music.
The program, Wilson added, is designed as meditations on the four great contributions of King and his legacy to American society and the world: “Faith: Life as a Reverend,” “Civil Rights/Social Justice: Life as a Spokesperson,” “Nonviolent Civil Disobedience: Life as a Demonstrator,” and “Peace/Antiwar Activism: Life as a Peace Activist and Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.”
In addition to the student organization Amani Gospel Singers, School of Music participants will include faculty musicians John White (piano) and Frank Campos (trumpet), student baritone Cory Walker M.M. ’07 and the Ithaca College Chorus, Women’s Chorale, Choir, Chamber Orchestra, and Vocal Jazz Ensemble. Joining them from the larger Ithaca community will be the Arabic and Hebrew Children’s Choir and the Ithaca Community Children’s Chorus. Faculty members Janet Galván, Baruch Whitehead, Jeffery Meyer and Lawrence Doebler will conduct.For more information, contact Erik Kibelsbeck in the School of Music at (607) 274-3717 or ekibelsbeck@ithaca.edu.
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