Kronos Quartet
Wed, January 15, 2020 at 7:30pm PT
Past Event
COST:
$32-$60
All prices and programs subject to change.
At the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, Mahalia Jackson’s shout to her close friend Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. changed his speech: “Tell them about the Dream! Tell them about the Dream!” It’s said that her plea inspired Dr. King to stray off-script in his immortal speech. That passage, captured in notes made by King speechwriter and Stanford Scholar in Residence Dr. Clarence B. Jones, is central to composer Zachary James Watkins' Peace Be Till. See it performed by the groundbreaking Kronos Quartet in a concert that includes music from a decade that changed the nation.
Program
Steve Reich / Pendulum Music
Traditional (arr. Stephen Prutsman & Kronos) / Star-Spangled Banner
Traditional (arr. Jacob Garchik) / The House of the Rising Sun (inspired by The Everly Brothers)
Stacy Garrop / Glorious Mahalia
I. Hold on
II. Stave in the ground
III. Are you being treated right
IV. Sometime I feel like a motherless child
V. This world will make you think
featuring the recorded voices of Mahalia Jackson and Studs TerkelGeorge Gershwin (arr. Jacob Garchik) / Summertime (inspired by Janis Joplin)
Antonio Haskell (arr. Jacob Garchik) / God Shall Wipe All Tears Away (inspired by Mahalia Jackson)
Abel Meeropol (arr. Jacob Garchik) / Strange Fruit
Zachary James Watkins / Peace Be Till
featuring the recorded voice of Dr. Clarence B. JonesVideo
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Past Event
COST:
$32-$60
All prices and programs subject to change.