The Cleveland Orchestra's
2018 Martin Luther King Jr.
Celebration Concert

A broadcast presentation
and joint collaboration between
The Cleveland Orchestra
and ideastream/PBS
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The Cleveland Orchestra
and City of Cleveland  
present a special celebration of
the birthday of
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

featuring the
Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Chorus
assembled and prepared
by William Henry Caldwell

with
James Pickens Jr, narrator
Ryan Speedo Green, bass-baritone

and The Cleveland Orchestra
conducted by Franz Welser-Möst

BEETHOVEN - Overture to Egmont
WALKER - Lyric for Strings
TRADITIONAL/arr. FLOYD -
         Down by the Riverside
RESPIGHI - Pines of the Appian Way
         from Pines of Rome
WARD HOWE/arr. WILHOUSKY -
         Battle Hymn of the Republic
DEWEY/arr. FLOYD -
         Take My Hand, Precious Lord
JOHNSON & JOHNSON/arr. SMITH -
         Lift Every Voice and Sing
  

This presentation, filmed as a live concert event on January 14, 2018, was sponsored by KeyBank and supported by a grant from the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, and originally broadcast in 2018.

Click or tap here to view an online flipbook of the concert's original printed program book.