A Time to Heal

May 9, 2011 from 2:00pm to 5:00pm CDT
Location: Anniston Performing Arts Center, Anniston High School.
Latest Activity: Oct 22, 2020

A Time to HealMay 9, 20117 pmAnniston Performing Arts CenterIn remembrance of the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Riders and as part of Civil Rights week, “A Time to Heal” is an evening of music, dance and drama to bring our community together to celebrate our diversity and the harmony in which we live.Act I features performances of students and adults from our community to showcase both the beauty of individual cultures as well as the magic that happens when they weave together.Act II presents “Fire and Freedom” performed by local musicians, singers, dancers, and actors, including students from the Anniston after School Arts Program. Conveying a sense of the African American experience, with an artistic representation of the attack on the Freedom Riders’ bus, the piece ends with the poignant scene of 12 year old Janie Forsyth, Anniston’s own hero, carrying water to the injured.“Fire and Freedom” features an original symphonic score by Raymond Horton, an internationally recognized, Indiana-based composer whose works are frequently inspired by the African American experience, reflect historical research, and incorporate traditional songs and tunes. Horton’s compositions have been performed by the Louisville Orchestra, the National Symphony, the Louisville Festival Orchestra, and the Academy of the Performing Arts at the University of Trinidad and Tobago. On May 21, 2011, the Susquehanna Symphony will perform "Make Gentle the Life of this World," Horton’s setting of the 1968 speech by Senator Robert Kennedy on the night of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This piece, composed under a grant from the Indiana Arts Council, was described as “a beautiful piece...a wonderful melodic & harmonic sense” by Lawrence L. Smith, Music Director, Colorado Springs Philharmonic.(For more information, see www.rayhortonmusic.com.)

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