Simply beautiful. An exceptional tribute to an extraordinary human being. And told with such sincerity and grace!

Outstanding feat of imaginative teaching/programing. Am forwarding this to colleagues and graduate school music students with whom I work as a mentor; this is a wonderful example of seizing opportunity to develop interdisciplinary study projects that are at once fascinating, relevant and electrically engaging. Can't think of a more mind-opening proof of music's multifaceted power. Thanks for a great afternoon of listening

Somehow, I felt a connection with this amazing program. You seemed to bring this precious human being back to life by showing the human side. I could visualize Dr King dancing the jitterbug. I enjoyed the program. It was a gift. Thank you.

If memory serves, Marian Anderson always avoided using the first person singular, referring to herself as "we"--not just when singing "My Country 'Tis of Thee," but always. Check it out with her nephew, the conductor. He should know.

The program is powerful, poignant, beautiful.

Thanks you so very much.

I spent the early years of my childhood in Newark. In an integrated neighborhood. Everyone on the block was colored. And then there was us. The white house. I lived in a three-family house with my parents, grandparents, and an aunt and uncle.

I was the only white kid on the block. The only white kid in my class at the Newton Street School.

On occasion I went to a nearby movie theater with my friends for a Saturday matinee. We were not allowed to sit in the front rows. We were colored. And at the soda shop afterward we were not permitted to sit at the counter. We were colored.

When my family subsequently moved to the suburbs--a community predominantly white--I discovered that I could sit anywhere I wanted in the movie theater and that I could sit at any lunch counter as well.

I knew then that I had come face to face with racial discrimination as a child.

So, inspired by memories of my friends, I became very active in the civil rights movement as a young lawyer, and volunteered for the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee (LCDC). I even walked the streets of my old neighborhood in Newark during the 1967 riots.

Your program brought back the memories. The cause. The commitment. The sadness. The joy.

Thanks for the memories.

frank j. miele

Thank you for your very moving Martin Luther King "Musical Journey" -- many of us accompanied Dr. King on that journey through the '60s & again, yesterday. When you announced Max Roach's "Freedom Now Suite: Freedom Day" I expected you would, of course, announce the suite's extraordinary Freedom Singer, Abbey Lincoln. I also hoped/expected to hear Dr. Billy Taylor's Civil Rights anthem, "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free." Apparently, Dr. King couldn't remember the long title, so he'd just turn to Dr. Taylor [at Birmingham] and say: "Play that Baptist-sounding song!" (Recalled by Kim Taylor-Thompson remembering her father at his Riverside Church memorial celebration last Monday. (The MLK request of Billy Taylor to "Play That Song!" was also mentioned by Kevin Struthers, Kennedy Center director of Jazz Programming.) Maybe new mentions for MLK Musical Journey 2012? Thank you, Patti Hagan

Terrance, this was a very moving program. There were many moments when I was moved to tears. It also gave me some insights on MLK's life that I never heard before or perhaps forgot. Just wonderful! The music highlights were also wonderful. I am now listening to the Flagello piece and find it also moving. I have heard other pieces of music of his and think he is one of many composers who I would call underrated.
Thanks for the wonderful program.

Again, a wonderful show. It left me wanting to know more about Coretta Scott King. I did not know she was so accomplished as a singer and had achieved as much as she did before she met MLK. It seems, although details were absent in last nigh't show, that she gave up her promising career when she met her future husband.
What about a show about the (hidden) women of the civil rights movement? There was another woman, prior to Rosa Parks, who also refused to move her bus seat. I think she died recently and my understanding is she had a troubled background so was not an immediate choice for media attention a bus boycott would bring. Not to take away from MLK, but I think the story of all these women could be told. (also - Shirley Chisholm!).
Thank you for the show last night and all these programmes. Wonderful!

An incredibly moving show. My eyes are wet, but my soul is singing. Thank you.

Powerful, Moving. Thank you.

Thank you, thank you, thank you Terence for this wonderful program--I'm old enough to have lived through those times and to attend many local protest groups--particularly against the Vietnam War--you reminded me again about the struggle, which is still not over!

This program is wonderful, but it's making me miss your nightly show on WNYC so much. You are just not on the air enough, Terrance.