BEI Emeritus Fellow Regie Gibson will intersperse poetry and reflective readings between pieces at an upcoming Martin Luther King, Jr event in Lexington, MA.

Follen Community Church will host the premiere of “In His Own Words: Concert in Memory of Martin Luther King”, which sets the words of MLK’s speech “My Sweet Princesses (Birmingham 1963)” for soprano and string trio by five local composers including Pamela Marshall, Thomas Stumpf and John Tarrh. Elizabeth Whitfield, violinist, and Alexandra Whitfield, soprano, Lexington mother and daughter, will also perform.

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