The event concludes with a concert livestreamed from Nichols Concert Hall featuring Music Institute alumni, students, faculty, and special guests. Students from the Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative (CMPI) will also be featured in this concert. The CMPI program offers student musicians from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds a pathway to musical training (the
Programming to date includes:
- Alumna violinist Rachel Barton Pine, performing Louisiana Blues by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson and Hip-Hop Prayer No. 3 by Daniel Bernard Roumain
- Artist in residence and vocalist Tammy McCann, performing How I Got Over which Mahalia Jackson sang prior to Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech during the 1963 March on Washington
- Alumna violinist Hannah White, performing Between Worlds by Carlos Simon
- Faculty duo pianists Sung Hoon Mo and Inah Chiu, performing Symphony No. 1 in A Flat Afro-American
- Clarinetist, saxophonist, and educator Victor Goines, joined by a rhythm section, performing his original work MLK Suite
- The Brotherhood Chorale of the Apostolic Church of God, directed by Brother Brian Rice
Evanston Mayor Steve Hagerty will introduce the concert, and Reverend Dr. Raymond Hylton, senior pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Evanston, will offer reflections.
