Series: Say Brother
Program: Say Brother Pays Tribute to Webster Lewis with a Night on the Town
Episode: 707
Date: 1976-11-28
Subject: African American musicians; African American conductors (Music) - Boston - Massachusetts; African American orchestra musicians

Clip Description
Program consists of a special, hour-long version of the tribute concert for musician and composer Webster Lewis, at the New England Conservatory of Music's Jordan Hall. Backed by his sixty-piece orchestra (composed of New England Conservatory students, community service students, preparatory school students, community musicians, and professionals), Lewis conducts and performs spiritual and jazz rock selections from his newly released recording A Night on the Town and debuts the new Say Brother theme. Guest performers include vocalists Carla Benson, Evette L. Benton, Barbara Ingram, and Bruce Gray. Program was simulcast on WGBH Radio FM. Produced by Barbara Barrow. Directed by David Atwood.

Program Description
Program consists of a special, hour-long version of the tribute concert for musician and composer Webster Lewis, at the New England Conservatory of Music's Jordan Hall. Backed by his sixty-piece orchestra (composed of New England Conservatory students, community service students, preparatory school students, community musicians, and professionals), Lewis conducts and performs spiritual and jazz rock selections from his newly released recording A Night on the Town and debuts the new Say Brother theme. Guest performers include vocalists Carla Benson, Evette L. Benton, Barbara Ingram, and Bruce Gray. Program was simulcast on WGBH Radio FM. Produced by Barbara Barrow. Directed by David Atwood.

Series Description
Say Brother is WGBH's longest running public affairs television program by, for and about African Americans, and is now known as Basic Black. Since its inception in 1968, Say Brother has featured the voices of both locally and nationally known African American artists, athletes, performers, politicians, professionals, and writers including: Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, Thomas Atkins, Amiri Baraka, Doris Bunte, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Louis Farrakhan, Nikki Giovanni, Odetta Gordon, Henry Hampton, Benjamin Hooks, Jesse Jackson, Hubie Jones, Mel King, Eartha Kitt, Elma Lewis, Haki Madhubuti, Wallace D. Muhammad, Charles Ogletree, Byron Rushing, Owusu Sadaukai, and Sonia Sanchez.

See also: http://main.wgbh.org/saybrother/programs/sb_0707.html