On September 22 at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall in Washington, D.C., guest conductor Ryan McAdams will lead the National Symphony Orchestra and composer/jazz musician Jason Moran in a performance of the score from the 2014 film Selma, as the film is screened live. Moran, who scored the film, is the Kennedy Center’s artistic director for jazz. The film chronicles Martin Luther King Jr.’s movement to secure equal voting rights and the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights marches. The event marks the John F. Kennedy centennial and the one-year anniversary of Washington, D.C.’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. There will be a post-show panel discussion with Congressman John Lewis, Selma director Ava DuVernay, film score composer Jason Moran, and Selma sound editor Greg Hedgepath, as well as conductor Ryan McAdams, as they explore the idea of American storytelling through music and creative expression.
Posted September 21, 2017
