Saturday, August 14, 2010

Video of MusicUNTOLD Chorale's 'JUNETEENTH Celebration' in Long Beach June 15, 2010


[MusicUNTOLD Chorale Director Zanaida Robles (Photo by Steven Georges/Staff Photographer, Long Beach Press-Telegram)]

Today John Malveaux sends us a link to the video of the MusicUNTOLD Chorale's JUNETEENTH concert at the Long Beach Terrace Center on June 15, 2010 under the direction of Zanaida Robles, conductor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13q6DiAgmtI

On June 2, 2010 AfriClassical posted, in part: “The 25-member MusicUntold Chorale will open Long Beach JUNETEENTH WorldWide at the Long Beach Performing Arts Center with 'I Dream a World' by Langston Hughes, musical arrangement by Dr. Rosephanye Powell; and 'A Letter from Lincoln,' with music composed by Ulysses Kay to accompany the text of Abraham Lincoln's correspondence to a Confederate widow. The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, a federal agency in Washington DC, has endorsed the performance of 'A LETTER from LINCOLN' as an official performance of the Commission.” John Malveaux

[Ulysses Simpson Kay, Jr. (1917-1995) was an African American composer, conductor and professor who is profiled at AfriClassical.com, which features a complete Works List by Prof. Dominique-René de Lerma of Lawrence University Conservatory.]





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