by Kara Gavin, Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation
The power of music to express the human spirit, and triumph over adversity, will come to life on Sunday, Jan. 18, as theUniversity of Michigan Life Sciences Orchestra presents a free concert at Hill Auditorium.
With themes befitting the eve of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the performance will feature works both famous and less-recognized, played by an orchestra made up of medical, health and science faculty, staff, students and alumni from across U-M. U-M president Mark Schlissel will give opening remarks, as part of U-M’s celebration of MLK’s legacy.
The concert will begin at 4 p.m., and is open to the public with general admission seating. No tickets are required. LSO music director Adrian Slywotzky will give a brief pre-concert lecture about the works on the program at 3:15 p.m.
The centerpiece of the LSO’s performance will be Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, one of the most famous – and stirring – works of all of classical music. Beethoven composed the now-immortal work amid war and political upheaval, and his own increasing deafness.
Three works by 20th Century American composers will make up the concert’s first half. Most famous among them: Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait”, which combines uniquely American melodies with excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln.
Lincoln’s words will be spoken by narrator Carmen R. Green, M.D., a U-M associate vice president for medical affairs and associate dean for Health Equity and Inclusion, and professor in the U-M Medical School and School of Public Health. A noted anesthesiologist and pain medicine physician, she has a national reputation for her leadership on achieving a representative population of women and minorities in the biomedical pipeline, and an international reputation for her seminal research on health and pain care disparities and health policy. Green leads the U-M Health System’s effort to identify and address inequality in health care and health professions across U-M’s clinical, educational, research, and public missions.
Join us after the concert at Knight's Steakhouse where 15% of your bill will benefit the Life Sciences Orchestra.
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