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Sinfonietta’s diverse program reflects King’s legacy
Wednesday Journal of Oak Park and River Forest
By Cathryn Wilkinson
Published January 16, 2007
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Hearing the Chicago Sinfonietta’s Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jan. 14, in Dominican University’s Lund Auditorium was a little like settling in for a long reception line of unrelated visitors-each stopping by with a friendly and imaginative word, and all dressed with high professionalism. True to their mission, “Musical excellence through diversity,” the Sinfonietta’s polished line-up was part concert and part pep rally, fire, brimstone, history, and call to arms-that is, arms of a distinctly nonviolent variety.
With over four decades of hindsight, Americans have made much of King’s immortal “I Have a Dream” manifesto. Paul Freeman, founder and music director of the Sinfonietta, interprets King’s credo as a challenge to embrace America’s richly diverse peoples and culture. And so, through an array of moods and styles, he offered a musically diverse program, from the intensely poignant “Lyric for Strings” by African-American George Walker to the syncopated fervor of Richard Smallwood’s “Anthem o
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- Andris Nelsons - Boston Symphony
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- Andris Nelsons, Vienna Philharmonic
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