Tune in Friday morning for our next live broadcast from Detroit's Orchestra Hall. Guest conductor Thomas Wilkins will be on the podium for a soulful program opening with the "Fanfare for Universal Hope" by James Lee III.
The Brazeal Dennard Chorale will be featured in several selections including "Lift Every Voice and Sing."
Detroit Symphony Principal Trombonist, Kenneth Thompkins, will perform Carlos Simon’s Troubled Water for Trombone and Orchestra. The moving concerto commemorates the Underground Railroad and, in Simon’s words, “the stories, accounts, and experiences told by many enslaved people and abolitionists.”
Thomas Wilkins will close the program with William Grant Still’s vibrant and uplifting Fourth Symphony, which celebrates a wide variety of American musical cultures.
The music starts Friday morning at 10:40 here on Blue Lake Public Radio.
