CNU to Present Special Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration
News Release - January 15, 2008
Media Contact:
Emily L. Lucier
Press Secretary and Media Manager
emily.lucier@cnu.edu
(757) 594-8428
(NEWPORT NEWS, Va.) - The Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Department of Music at Christopher Newport University will be presenting a special Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration on Monday, January 21, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. in the Ferguson Center for the Arts Music and Theatre Hall. The program will feature a brief presentation of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, other selected readings, and vocal and jazz music. The CNU Men’s Chorus, CNU Women’s Chorus, CNU Jazz Combo, CNU faculty Mezzo-Soprano Lisa Relaford Coston, and the Zion Baptist Church Choir of Hampton with pianist Don Morse will take part in this special Commemoration. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please call CNU’s Department of Music, 594-7089.
Christopher Newport University is a four-year public university in Newport News, Virginia. CNU enrolls 4,800 students in programs through its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Joseph W. Luter III College of Business and Leadership and offers great teaching, small classes and an emphasis on leadership, civic engagement and honor.
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