Cantate, Afro Blue singers premiere cantata on race in the U.S.

Much music has been written commemorating major historical events -- which doesn't make it any easier a proposition to pull off. The Cantate Chamber Singers , for a 30th anniversary season, gave a doozy of a commission: a cantata about race in America, focusing on the events of Selma, Ala., in 1965, but incorporating references to the whole range of subsequent history.