The Cleveland Orchestra
Vinay Parameswaran, conductor
Jacqueline Echols, soprano
Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Chorus

Dr. William Henry Caldwell, director

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