Poster Martin Luther King Jr leads march to Montgomery
On March 30, 1965, American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a voting rights march from Selma, Ala., to the state capital in Montgomery.
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Learning to Listen: Music of rights and revolution

Learning to Listen: Music of Rights and Revolution

This week, Learning to Listen takes its lead from Martin Luther King Day. The music is all related to occasions or movements connected to civil rights, freedom or revolution.

Program Playlist

We Shall Overcome
Charles Alferd Tindley/arr O'Connor
Mark O'Connor, fiddle

Go Down, Moses
Negro Spiritual/arr. Burleigh
Marian Anderson, contralto

Gioacchino Rossini
Tutto cangia, il ciel s'abbella from William Tell
Orchestra and chorus of La Scala, Milan/Muti

Giuseppe Verdi
'Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves' from Nabucco

Jean Sibelius
from Finlandia - Finlandia Hymn

Michael Tippett
from A Child of Our Time - 'Nobody Knows the Trouble I See, Lord'
London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Richard Hickox, conductor

Ethel Smyth
The March of the Women
The Plymouth Music Series
Philip Brunelle, conductor
Janis Hardy, alto

Sergei Prokofiev
Prelude from Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution, Op. 74

Dmitri Shostakovich
Festive Overture

Sergei Rachmaninov
Vespers: Rejoice O Virgin (Bogoroditse Devo)
The Dale Warland Singers

Richard Wagner
Prelude to Tristan and Isolde
Daniel Barenboim

Strange Fruit
arr. Downes

Ludwig van Beethoven
Hymn to Joy from Symphony no. 9
mixed orch./Bernstein, recorded at the Berlin Wall

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