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Songs For A Dreamer | A Tribute to MLK, Jr.

January 15, 2012 at Second Calvary Baptist Church

“SONGS FOR A DREAMER”
The Virginia Symphony Orchestra presents
A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The City of Norfolk and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra present a VSO HARMONY Project Community Concert, “Songs for a Dreamer: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” This free concert will feature music either inspired by the African-American experience or written by African-American composers. Among the pieces featured on the program will be “Fanfare on Amazing Grace,” by Adolphus Hailstork, a nationally and internationally renowned local composer, who will be the recipient of the VSO’s first “Dreamer Award”; the Martin Luther King section of Duke Ellington’s “Three Black Kings,” featuring saxophonist, Stephanie Sanders; and “Mother and Child,” the second movement of “Suite for Violin and Orchestra” by George Walker, featuring Brendon Elliott on violin. Benjamin Rous will conduct the orchestra with Norfolk State University’s Jazz Ensemble, performing Moses Hogan’s “His Light Still Shines.”

The HARMONY Project is underwritten by the Norfolk Arts and Humanities Commission and focuses on the partnership between the VSO and several historically African- American church congregations in the Hampton Roads communities.

The concert will take place on Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 7 p.m. at the Second Calvary Baptist Church, 2940 Corprew Avenue, Norfolk, VA.

For information, contact the VSO Education and Community Engagement office at 757-213-1421 and the City of Norfolk at 664-4253.

Free Concert