Opera star Denyce Graves and country singer Trace Adkins are featured in the National Symphony Orchestra's annual concert on the Capitol's West Lawn, which will be broadcast live on PBS on May 24.
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While the National Concert in D.C on Memorial Day maintained its 20 year tradition of schmalzy big string orchestra, this year's concert contained grit and deeply moving tributes to wounded veterans, all the way back to the Civil War. There were nonstop stellar performances by Brian Stokes Mitchell, Denise Graves, Katherine McPhee, Katie Holmes and Diane Wiest, Lawrency Fishburne, Tracy Adkins, Colin Wilkerson, Lang Lang, and Robert McDuffie. I couldn't help but wondering if the Obama administration had helped shape the gutsy strength and substance and great artistry of most of this year's performance.
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