HU Honors Martin Luther King, Jr. with Free Concert

Hampton, VA - The Hampton University Department of Music and the Hampton University Choirs present the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Freedom Concert: Music by African American Composers on January 17, 2005, at 7:30 p.m. at Hampton University’s Memorial Church. The concert is free and open to the public.

This concert will showcase choral and solo vocal music by African – American composers and arrangers as performed by the HU Concert Choir and faculty soloists. Musical works by composers R. Nathaniel Dett, Nathan Carter, Roland Carter, Joseph Joubert, Undine Smith Moore, Moses Hogan, Hezekiah Walkers and others will be featured. Additionally, several of the area’s most gifted clergy will share excerpts from some of King’s most powerful speeches throughout the concert.

Maestro Royzell L. Dillard will conduct the University Concert Choir. The Hampton University Concert Choir is the primary touring ensemble for the University. The HU Concert Choir has been prominently featured on the public television program Black Voices filmed in Las Vegas, Nev., and at the inauguration of President William Jefferson Clinton. Additionally, the HU Concert Choir has previously performed at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City, the Lewiston Council on the Arts in Lewiston, N.Y., and for the Canadian Arts Foundation in Ontario, Canada.