Sunday, January 17, 2021
7:00 PM
Sunday at 7pm, WCRB In Concert with the Boston Children's Chorus honors Dr. King's legacy with a program of works celebrating women of the Civil Rights Movement, with guest conductor Dr. Lynnel Joy Jenkins.
The Boston Children's Chorus
Dr. Lynnel Joy Jenkins, guest conductor
Bernice Johnson Reagon: We are the Ones We Been Waiting For
Walter Robinson arr. Kathleen McGuire: Harriet Tubman
Florence B. Price: Resignation
Traditional Zulu: Emlanjeni
Ethel Smyth: The March of the Women
Andrea Ramsey: Letter from a Girl to the World
Trad. African American Spritual arr. Rollo Dilworth: Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around
John Legend & Common arr. Stephen Feigenbaum: Glory from Selma
Moira Smiley: How Can I Cry?
Trad. Spiritual arr. Undine Smith Moore: We Shall Walk Through the Valley
Aretha Franklin & Ted White arr. Mark Brymer: Think (Freedom)
Traditional: We Shall Overcome
Recorded on January 21, 2019 at Symphony Hall
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