The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #107884 Message #2240597
Posted By: Ron Davies
20-Jan-08 - 11:20 AM
Thread Name: BS: In Memory: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Subject: RE: BS: In Memory: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
My group sang a concert in his honor--annual event--at the Kennedy Center last Sunday, with lots of black groups also. We each sang as individual groups and we sang as a huge, thoroughly mixed group. Wonderful, stirring, experience.
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" is so much better a national anthem than the one we have.
Mudcatters might do well to remember Dr. King, among other things, was a Christian minister--which came through loud and clear in all the music we sang.
I had a chance to talk to some of the singers from the black groups. And it came through--no revelation but yet again--that we're all just people.