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Memorial to Martin Luther King


Jan. 22, 1991 The Boston Globe by Richard Dyer

McFerrin and Ma: concerts to remember

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Zander and the Boston Philharmonic opened the concert with Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, nobly intoned, and Ma played both the Memorial to Martin Luther King by the Czech-Canadian composer Oskar Morawetz and the Dvorak Concerto. Morawetz's piece, vigorously scored for winds, brass and percussion, is dramatic, deeply sincere, and affecting. In the hands of Zander and Ma it made a powerful impact and won the composer a standing ovation.

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