Wadada Leo Smith at Atlas Performing Arts Center

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, Atlas Performing Arts Center presents the Washington, DC premiere of Ten Freedom Summers, trumpeter/composer/musical innovator Wadada Leo Smith’s soul-searching tribute to the Civil Rights Movement paying homage to heroes including Emmett Till, Rosa Parks, Medgar Evers, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

The event will also premiere the 23rd work in the TFS collection: That Sunday Morning: Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley: We Carry You In Our Hearts, which remembers the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. Smith will also be premiering new music written for the 22nd composition in TFS: The March on Washington, D.C. — August 1963....

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In honor of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, Atlas Performing Arts Center presents the Washington, DC premiere of Ten Freedom Summers, trumpeter/composer/musical innovator Wadada Leo Smith’s soul-searching tribute to the Civil Rights Movement paying homage to heroes including Emmett Till, Rosa Parks, Medgar Evers, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

The event will also premiere the 23rd work in the TFS collection: That Sunday Morning: Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley: We Carry You In Our Hearts, which remembers the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. Smith will also be premiering new music written for the 22nd composition in TFS: The March on Washington, D.C. — August 1963.

The full three-performance multi-media presentation of the 7-hour collection takes place at 8 p.m. on Friday, October 25 (Ten Freedom Summers I); 3 p.m. on Saturday, October 26 (TFS II), and 8 p.m. on Saturday, October 26 (TFS III) at the Theresa and Jane Lang Theatre, Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H Street NE, Washington, DC. Advance tickets are $33.50 per concert; tickets are $35.50 per concert at the door beginning 2 hours before the show. Tickets for all three concerts are $85.50 and can be purchased in advance or at the door. Student tickets, $20 per concert, available at the door, only. Call 202-399-7993 ext. 2 or log on to http://atlasarts.org/ for tickets and information.

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