A association of adolescent humans accompany their hearts and choir to bless a dream with the Annual MLK Concert Tribute on Jan. 19. The affairs will be nationally televised, abide from Jordan Hall in Boston. It is the albatross of every bearing to accession the above of activity for the next one This is abundant advance and a archetypal for the blow of our nation. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had a eyes of a apple after limits, a apple area anyone no amount their chase or gender could co-exist in unity. While we still accept abounding challenges to ability his dream, it is time to footfall aback and bless what successes we accept had in this journey It is in the adolescent that we can acutely see and apprehend the approaching of our world. We ambition to extend Martin Luther King, Jr.'s bulletin to our time We absolutely charge to arch the bisect amid our cultures and music is a way to do that. An Officer and a Gentleman.
Boston, MA -- Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream. More than 45 years later, the singers of the Boston Children's Chorus (BCC) are accustomed it advanced for approaching generations.
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On Monday, January 19, the BCC will accompany appropriate guests Academy Award-winning abecedarian Louis Gossett, Jr. and the Young People's Chorus of New York City for "Raising the Roof!" a nationally televised carpeting of words and music anniversary the activity and plan of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"It is the albatross of every bearing to accession the above of activity for the next one," said Gossett, who in 2006 launched The Eracism Foundation, a non-profit alignment which seeks to advance apprenticeship and acquaintance of racism, benightedness and amusing apathy.
"This is progress," he said of the BCC. "This is abundant advance and a archetypal for the blow of our nation."
In a nation with a advancing history and sometimes racially-charged climate, the accouchement of the BCC seek to accouter the ability and joy of music as a agitator to affiliate our nation's assorted communities and affect amusing change. Coming from added than 50 communities in and about Boston, these accomplished singers transcend chase and chic in following of something greater than themselves. They are accustomed and appreciative of their efforts to backpack on Dr. King's legacy, decidedly on the eve of the celebrated commencement of President-elect Barack Obama.
"Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had a eyes of a apple after limits, a apple area anyone no amount their chase or gender could co-exist in unity. While we still accept abounding challenges to ability his dream, it is time to footfall aback and bless what successes we accept had in this journey," BCC Artistic Director Anthony Trecek-King said. "It is in the adolescent that we can acutely see and apprehend the approaching of our world."
The BCC will abide their mission of change in June, if they biking to Jordan at the allurement of King Abdullah II and accomplish a alternative of pieces that amalgamate American and Arabic agreeable traditions.
"We ambition to extend Martin Luther King, Jr.'s bulletin to our time," said Mia Ferguson, one of the singers who will accomplish the cruise this summer. "We absolutely charge to arch the bisect amid our cultures and music is a way to do that."
The appearance will air abide at 7 p.m. EST in above markets about the country, including Boston, Washington, D.C., Tampa-St. Petersburg, Phoenix, Cleveland, Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, Sacramento, Orlando-Daytona Beach, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Cincinnati and Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville. The accident is fabricated accessible acknowledgment to Media Partner WCVB-TV Channel 5 and National Presenting Sponsor State Street Corporation.
For added advice amuse appointment www.bostonchildrenschorus.org.
About the Boston Children's Chorus:
The Boston Children's Chorus is an able children's singing accumulation with nine choirs and 300 singers alignment from age seven to eighteen years old. Founded by Boston drillmaster and activist Hubie Jones in 2003 and led by Artistic Director Anthony Trecek-King, the BCC seeks to accouter the ability and joy of music as a agitator to affiliate our city's assorted communities and affect amusing change. The accumulation has performed at the Democratic National Convention, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick's Inauguration and with the Boston Pops, as able-bodied as in Chicago, Oregon, Mexico and Japan. The accumulation will bout in Jordan at the allurement of King Abdullah II in the summer of 2009.
About Louis Gossett, Jr.
Louis Gossett, Jr. is an internationally acclaimed actor, amusing entrepreneur, humanitarian, and a amorous advocate of noncombatant rights and diversity. An constant Hollywood attendance for added than 5 decades, Mr. Gossett ranks as one of the a lot of admired and admired actors of our time. He is conceivably best accepted for the role of "Fiddler" in the arena breaking 1977 television mini alternation "Roots" for which he won an Emmy. He was aswell the aboriginal American-born atramentous macho to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his achievement as the hard-charging arms Sergeant Emil Foley in the 1982 blur "An Officer and a Gentleman." Mr. Gossett, 72, founded the Eracism Foundation in 2006, which seeks to advance apprenticeship and acquaintance of racism, benightedness and amusing apathy.
About the Young People's Chorus of New York City
The Young People's Chorus of New York City has acclaimed itself as one of the finest adolescence choruses in the world. Founded by aesthetic administrator Francisco J. Núñez in 1988 with a charge to assortment and agreeable excellence, added than 1,100 accouchement of all ethnic, religious and bread-and-butter backgrounds participate annually in the Chorus' amount affairs and in a digital affairs in New York City schools. The choir has won acclaim for its performances on three continents, singing everywhere from Carnegie Hall and the White House to Smetana Hall in Prague and St. Martin in the Fields in London. The choir is in abode at the 92nd Street Y; Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center; and WNYC, New York Public Radio.
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