{"id":115402,"date":"2023-04-26T14:00:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T19:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/?p=115402"},"modified":"2023-04-26T14:00:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T19:00:38","slug":"um-choirs-to-perform-and-justice-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/um-choirs-to-perform-and-justice-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"UM Choirs to Perform &#8216;&#8230; and Justice for All&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_115799\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/um-choirs-to-perform-and-justice-for-all\/ucimg-2651\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-115799\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-115799\" class=\"wp-image-115799\" src=\"http:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/UCIMG-2651-640x391.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/UCIMG-2651-640x391.jpg 640w, https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/UCIMG-2651-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/UCIMG-2651-768x469.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/UCIMG-2651-1536x938.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/UCIMG-2651.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-115799\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The university&#8217;s Concert Singers will perform &#8216;\u2026 and Justice for All&#8217; at 7:30 p.m. May 3 in Nutt Auditorium. The performance is one of the university&#8217;s final events celebrating its 60th anniversary of integration this academic year. Photo by Kevin Bain\/Ole Miss Digital Imaging Services<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in;\">OXFORD, Miss. \u2013 The <a href=\"https:\/\/olemiss.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Mississippi<\/a> Choirs will present a concert of original music encouraging world peace May 3.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in;\">The combined choirs will perform Kyle Pederson&#8217;s &#8220;&#8230; and Justice for All&#8221; at 7:30 p.m. in Nutt Auditorium. Admission is free.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in;\">The concert is one of the university&#8217;s final events celebrating its 60th anniversary of integration this academic year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in;\">Pederson composed the work in 2022. The five movements are &#8220;Reach Down, Lord,&#8221; &#8220;Beat! Beat! Drums!&#8221; &#8220;All of Me,&#8221; &#8220;Light Transforms the Darkness&#8221; and &#8220;I Dream a World.&#8221; The composition is scored for narrator, chorus, piano, violin, trumpet and percussion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in;\">&#8220;As stated by Mr. Pederson, the overall message from this work is &#8216;that each of us might reach out beyond our comfort zone and seek to build bridges of care and connection, finding a better way of being in community,'&#8221; said Donald Trott, UM professor of music and director of <a href=\"https:\/\/choral.olemiss.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">choral activities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in;\">The narrator will be Ethel Young Scurlock, dean of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honors.olemiss.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in;\">For several years, the Ole Miss choirs have been actively participating in the nonprofit organization <a href=\"http:\/\/avoice4peace.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AVoice4Peace<\/a>. The idea for this group was born at the university in in 2015, when Ken Wakia, director of the Nairobi Chamber Choir in Kenya, presented a collaborative concert in the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in;\">&#8220;Each Sept. 19, we celebrate our stand for peace by singing a song reflective of the day,&#8221; Trott said. &#8220;For this year, Dr. Fenton decided to pursue a commissioned work that brings the message of peace through choral music.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0in;\">&#8220;Seven choral organizations were contacted, including Ole Miss, to see if all would be part of the commission.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OXFORD, Miss. \u2013 The University of Mississippi Choirs will present a concert of original music encouraging world peace May 3. 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