Special Rosa Thurmond doesn't consider her singing engagements as performances or shows. Martin Luther King Jr. The ''Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Concert,'' presented Jan. 13 by the Walton County Music Guild and the Moore's Ford Memorial Committee, features soloists Thurmond and Jerri-Lynn Williams and the Clark Atlanta University Philharmonic Society. The event honors both the memory of four African-Americans who were shot hundreds of times in broad daylight at the Moore's Ford bridge spanning the Apalachee River between Walton and Oconee counties, and of a compassionate minister seeking social justice. But we're doing our best to promote racial healing. The Clark Atlanta University Philharmonic Society offers a diverse program during the concert.
Music is a universal language, one of the few things everyone can say touches their lives.
Today,'' the same piece she contributed to a 1998 Moore's Ford Memorial service. As for the rest of the songs, ''when I ask God to give me the message he wants me to deliver, I might not get that message until the day before, or the morning of'' a performance, she says.