BRATTLEBORO-The Windham Philharmonic will honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a special concert on Monday, Jan. 19, at 7 p.m. at the Latchis Theatre, presenting a program that organizers say “celebrates dignity, imaginative freedom, and the complex histories that music can illuminate.”
The performance will include Franz Schubert’s Overture in E minor, Richard Strauss’s Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-flat major featuring French horn soloist Noah Fotis Larsson from Tundi’s 2025 Ring Cycle, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Symphonic “Variations on an African Air,” a work rooted in African-American spiritual tradition that organizers said will “invite audiences to consider questions of identity, cultural inheritance, and creative responsibility.”
“The program is built around the idea of dignity — for individuals, for communities, and for the music itself,” Music Director Hugh Keelan said in a news release. “Coleridge-Taylor’s variations, in particular, ask us to engage seriously with inherited material, to reflect on its origins, and to imagine how music can honor resilience and humanity across time and place.”
This performance continues the Windham Philharmonic’s tradition of what organizers called “connecting audience and orchestra as co-travelers in an intense musical and cultural exploration.” They said this concert “offers a rare opportunity to experience works that range from the intimately lyrical to the cross-cultural, all within a framework that celebrates ethical, humanistic, and artistic inquiry.”
Tickets are available at the door, by donation. For more information, visit windhamphilharmonic.org.
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