On March 28,1965, as part of the celebration of the completion and consecration of Grace Cathedral, Dr. King preached to a crowd of 5,000. We remember him with an Afro-centric choral Evensong, conducted by it's composer Carl MaultsBy.

Composer and conductor Carl MaultsBy is a contemporary "renaissance artist" whose talents encompass musical theatre, film, television, popular, and sacred music. He received the Doctor of Fine Arts degree and the Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics and Music from Lake Forest College, Illinois, as well as the Masters of Music degree in Jazz/Commercial Composition from Manhattan School of Music, where he studied composition with Richard DeRosa and film scoring with Ed Green. In addition, MaultsBy, a former artist & repertoire staff producer for RCA records, attended Columbia University where he studied music composition with the late Vladamir Ussachevsky and electronic music composition with Mario Davidovsky. MaultsBy studied sacred music and organ at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley. A 2002 inductee into the African Music Hall of Fame, he is also a recipient of a 2001 Harvard University Fromm Music Foundation Award, and a 2003 New York State Council on the Arts Commission for his woodwind quintet, “The Journey”, composed for Quintet of the Americas.