{"id":16449,"date":"2020-04-26T22:15:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T22:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/?p=16449"},"modified":"2020-04-27T15:26:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T15:26:46","slug":"baritone-mlk-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/baritone-mlk-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Baritone MLK Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a class=\"dt-pswp-item\" href=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dr-King-wife-daughter.jpg\" data-dt-img-description=\"\" data-large_image_width=\"1852\" data-large_image_height=\"2653\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16450\" src=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dr-King-wife-daughter-715x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"715\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dr-King-wife-daughter-715x1024.jpg 715w, https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dr-King-wife-daughter-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dr-King-wife-daughter-768x1100.jpg 768w, https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/dr-King-wife-daughter.jpg 1852w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Baritone MLK Jr<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The three King children<\/strong>, including Martin Jr. took piano lessons from their mother, Alberta William King<\/p>\n<p>* <strong>MLK Jr. sang<\/strong> in his Father\u2019s church choir at the 1939 Atlanta premiere of the movie \u2018Gone with the Wind\u2019 <em>and in the Glee Club at Morehouse College<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>MLK Jr. wrote in his biography <strong>\u201cOn a cool Saturday afternoon, I set out to drive from Atlanta, Georgia, to Montgomery, Alabama. It was a clear wintry day. The Metropolitan Opera was on the radio with a performance of one of my favourite operas \u2013Donizetti\u2019s Lucia di Lammermoor. So with the beauty of the countryside, the inspiration of Donizetti\u2019s inimitable music, and the splendor of the skies, the usual monotony that accompanies a relatively long drive &#8211; especially when one is alone was dispelled in pleasant diversions.\u201d<\/strong> (King 1958, 15)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baritone MLK Jr The three King children, including Martin Jr. took piano lessons from their mother, Alberta William King * MLK Jr. sang in his Father\u2019s church choir at the 1939 Atlanta premiere of the movie \u2018Gone with the Wind\u2019 and in the Glee Club at Morehouse College. MLK Jr. wrote in his biography \u201cOn&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[337,336],"class_list":["post-16449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musicuntold-blog","tag-martin-luther-king","tag-mlk-jr","category-97","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16452,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16449\/revisions\/16452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}