Norfolk State Presents Voices Found: Models of Inspiration Concert

Norfolk, Va.—The Norfolk State University Concert Choir, under the direction of Carl Haywood, and the Virginia Symphony, under the direction of Matthew Kraemer, will perform in the Voices Found: Models of Inspiration concert at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 27 at the L. Douglas Wilder Performing Arts Center. It also will be simulcast on WHRO 90.3 FM.

The concert is celebration of the contributions of artists—of whom the majority is African American—that awakened our nation’s conscience through their struggles, sacrifices and resolve. Models of inspiration include educators Benjamin Mays and Lyman Beecher Brooks, civil rights leaders and activists such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Gordon Parks and American composers Duke Ellington, Adolphus Hailstork and William Grant Still.

An interweaving of song, prose and instrumental pieces, the concert will include a recitation of works from Gordon Parks read by NSU President Carolyn W. Meyers. It will also include movements from Undine Smith Moore’s Scenes from the Life of a Martyr, based on the life of Martin Luther King Jr.; Lord Nelson Mass by Joseph Haydn; the spiritual, Hold On, arranged by Moses Hogan, Afro American Symphony by William Grant Still and a joint performance by the NSU Concert Choir and the Virginia Symphony of Robert Ray’s Gospel Mass.

General admission to the concert is $20 for adults and $5 for students and children under 18 years of age. For more information, call 823-8565 or visit www.nsu.edu.         

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