The Dessoff Choirs: We Remember
Performed the evening before the American election, the theme and purpose of the concert " remembrance of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., two "outstanding stewards of humanity," in Merriweather's words, whose lives were cut short by violence " embodied for musicians and audience alike art's core purposes. Art locates, grounds and inspires us; it gives us vocabularies for understanding ourselves. In the c…