June 24, 2023 2:00pm
Contact: Sarah Heyd Johnson
The Minnesota Orchestra presents a program in honor of Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the emancipation of the last African Americans still enslaved in Texas. With conductor André Raphel at the podium, the concert includes Adolphus Hailstork’s jubilant Three Spirituals and William Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony, one of the most celebrated American symphonies ever written. Singer Jevetta Steele, performance Poet Malcom-Jamal Warner and Justice Alan C. Page all lend their voices to this evening of celebration and remembrance written.