“Live” Radio Broadcast

This year’s presentation of The Seven Last Words of Christ – performed by Rachel Barton Pine, Mathias Tacke, Richard Young, and Wendy Warner – will be broadcast “live” in the Chicago area by WFMT radio [98.7 FM] on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 8 p.m. The performance will take place at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, The University of Chicago, and the featured speakers will be…

Pastor T.L. Barrett: Life Center Church of God in Christ

Dr. Martin E. Marty: The University of Chicago

Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer: U.S. District Court

Dr. Jean Bethke Elshtain: The University of Chicago Divinity School

Rev. Willie Barrow: Rainbow/PUSH Coalition

David Neff: Christianity Today

Dr. David Tracy: The University of Chicago Divinity School

Rev. John M. Buchanan: Fourth Presbyterian Church

Satellite Radio Broadcasts

Last year’s Chicago presentation – the Vermeer Quartet’s final performance of The Seven Last Words of Christ – can be heard throughout America via satellite during Holy Week over the WFMT Fine Arts Network. This 2007 event from Rockefeller Chapel, The University of Chicago, features spoken meditations by…

Mr. Harry Porterfield: ABC 7 News

Dr. Martin E. Marty: The University of Chicago

Pastor T.L. Barrett: Life Center Church of God in Christ (recorded)

Dr. Jean Bethke Elshtain: The University of Chicago Divinity School

Rev. Mark Olson: North Park University

Rev. Alison Boden: Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, The University of Chicago

Dr. Eboo Patel: Interfaith Youth Core

Rabbi Michael Zedek: Emanuel Congregation of Chicago

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (recorded)

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