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Day of Service and Celebration in honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Jamaica Plain Studens to
perform with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras' Intensive Community Program
at the Day of Service and Celebration in Honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. JP students are listed below:


Jazmyn Nam-Krane, Double Bass, Age 13

Lenora Davis, Cello, Age13

Roger Cawdette, Viola, Age 13

Emmalee Manigat, Violin , Age11

Sebastian D'Amico, Cello, Age 17

Alexandra D'Amico, Viola, Age 16



Monday, January 20, 2014 at 1:00PM

Faneuil
Hall, Boston



Doors
open at 12noon                  
      

Concert and spoken word

Free and open to the public        

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Boston
Youth Symphony Orchestras (BYSO), The Museum of African American American
(MAAH), and the Mayor's Office of Arts, Tourism, and Special Events present
Boston's tribute to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at historic Faneuil
Hall.  



Please
join Boston's new Mayor Martin J. Walsh, the
Museum's Beverly
Morgan-Welch
 and
distinguished leaders who will evoke the power

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and
the promise of the civil rights hero, and commemorate the Civil
Rights Act of 1964. Conductor Marta Zarud will lead student musicians from
BYSO's Intensive Community Program in a moving array of classical music,
spirituals, and freedom songs.  The day's festivities culminate with
the traditional audience sing-a-long. 



KEYNOTE SPEAKER



Judy Richardson

Civil
Rights Activist and Documentary Filmmaker

Credits include Academy Award-nominated Eyes on the Prize and

Emmy and Peabody Award-winning Malcolm X: Make It Plain   



DISTINGUISHED LEADERS 



Michael A. Curry, Esq.

President,
Boston NAACP 



The Honorable Geraldine Hines

Massachusetts
Appeals Court 



Farrah Ridore

Alumni,
BYSO Intensive Community Program

Sophomore, Drew University

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