{"id":16476,"date":"2020-05-01T17:20:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T17:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/?p=16476"},"modified":"2020-05-17T21:06:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T21:06:46","slug":"coretta-scott-at-the-new-england-conservatory-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/coretta-scott-at-the-new-england-conservatory-of-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Coretta Scott at the New England Conservatory of Music"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Coretta & children (Yolanda, Bernice, Dexter, MLK lll)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Freedom Concert poster.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Soprano Coretta Scott<\/strong> was the favorite student of her high school music teacher in Marian, Alabama. She was selected to sing on a special program with internationally recognized Baritone Paul Robeson. Coretta<\/strong> aspired to be a concert singer like Marian Anderson<\/strong>. While studying in Boston at the New England Conservatory of Music<\/strong> on a scholarship, she was aggressively contacted by Martin Luther King Jr.<\/strong>, a theology student also studying in Boston. For their first date, Martin<\/strong> invited Coretta<\/strong> to attend a concert featuring pianist Arthur Rubinstein<\/strong> with the Boston Symphony Orchestra<\/strong>. Coretta subsequently had a dream.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I always believed that there was a purpose for my life, and that I had to seek that purpose, and that if I discovered that purpose, then I believed that I would be successful in what I was doing. And I thought I had found that purpose when I decided that music was going to be my career — concert singing. I was going to be trained as a concert singer at the New England Conservatory of Music. I studied voice the first year, and after I met Martin and prayed about whether or not I should open myself to that relationship, I had a dream, and in that dream, I was made to feel that I should allow myself to be open and stop fighting the relationship. And that’s what I did, and of course the rest is history.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Coretta<\/strong> sang recitals while attending the New England Conservatory of Music<\/strong> and she sang in the Conservatory chorus<\/strong> which annually sang with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Coretta<\/strong> earned a degree in voice and violin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Coretta and Martin Luther King Jr were married June 18, 1953. The Kings had four children<\/strong>. Although the demands of raising a family had caused Mrs. King to retire from singing, she found another way to put her musical background to the service of the cause. She conceived and performed a series of FREEDOM CONCERTS<\/strong>, combining poetry, narration and music to tell the story of the Civil Rights Movement as fundraisers for the Southern Christian Leader Conference after marriage and between birth of four children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Soprano Coretta Scott was the favorite student of her high school music teacher in Marian, Alabama. She was selected to sing on a special program with internationally recognized Baritone Paul Robeson. Coretta aspired to be a concert singer like Marian Anderson. While studying in Boston at the New England Conservatory of Music on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[345,335,337,336,346],"class_list":["post-16476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musicuntold-blog","tag-boston-symphony-orchestra","tag-coretta-scott-king","tag-martin-luther-king","tag-mlk-jr","tag-new-england-conservatory-of-music","category-97","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16476","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=16476"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16480,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16476\/revisions\/16480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}