Music for a better world
Music entertains, but it also can fuel hope and happiness. So it did on Saturday, when the Harlem Gospel Choir celebrated the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the annual Joyful Noise gospel concert at Sanders Theatre. “I want 2013 to be the year that we, all of us … dedicate ourselves to building a community of mutual respect and kindness,” said Shelley Neill, the executive director of the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, which has staged the concert for 26 years. “If there is one single message among all the messages that Dr. King left behind, it would be to take heart and put it in practice to help build a community based on mutual respect.” Neill, who in the past has opened the festivities with children’s stories or tape recordings of King’s speeches, this year began the concert with her own powerful, a capella rendition of “You Gotta Move”...