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Morehouse College Glee Club Performs at MLK Great Hall Friday

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From the DC Public Library:

“WHO: Morehouse College Glee Club and Quartet

WHAT: Performs a free noon concert.

WHERE: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library

Great Hall
901 G St. NW

WHEN: Fri., March 24, noon

The Morehouse College Glee Club continues its tradition of musical excellence. The Glee Club has shared the stage with opera great Jessye Norman, Natalie Cole, Stevie Wonder, Gloria Estefan and Trisha Yearwood. They have performed at the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games, Super Bowl XXVII, a concert of excerpts from ³Porgy and Bess² with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and a premiere of the work ³Of Dreams and Other Possibilities² written by Patrice Rushen. Morehouse College is the only all-male historically black institution of higher learning in the United States.

The Glee Club performance is the last event in the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library before the building undergoes its three-year modernization. The concert will include spirituals, gospel and Yuroba selections.”

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