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[email protected] Jack Everly Leads the Magic of Motown, May 30-June 2 Program features male vocal quartet, Spectrum, and female vocal quartet, Radiance, performing hits by the Temptations, The Supremes, the Four Tops and more Baltimore, Md. (April 25, 2013) – The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Principal Pops Conductor Jack Everly leads male vocalist group Spectrum and female vocalist group Radiance in Motown’s most memorable hits on Thursday, May 30 at 8 p.m. at the Music Center at Strathmore, and Friday, May 31, Saturday, June 1 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, June 2 at 3 p.m. at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. The program will feature legendary songs from the Temptations, The Supremes, the Four Tops, Aretha Franklin and more. Please see below for complete program details. In 1959, Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to establish Motown Records, the label that would quickly go on to produce more than 180 No. 1 hit songs and sign some of the best-selling artists of all time including the Jackson 5 and Stevie Wonder. The record company’s huge success is credited to its unique “Motown Sound,” a funky blend of horns, tambourines, hand clapping and the interplay of gospel music’s call-and- response patterns with jazz music’s improvisational be-bop style. The “Motown Sound” changed American music forever. Jack Everly, conductor Jack Everly is the Principal Pops Conductor of the Baltimore and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestras, Naples Philharmonic Orchestra and National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa), and the Music Director of the National Memorial Day Concert and A Capitol Fourth on PBS.