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(RNS) Megachurch pastor Rick Warren and civil rights leader Rev. Joseph Lowery will deliver the invocation and benediction, respectively, at President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration next month (Jan 20).
\nThe roles of Warren, a best-selling author and leader of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., and Lowery, who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., were announced Wednesday (Dec. 17) by the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies.
\nIn addition to the swearing-in of Obama by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and the inaugural address, the Jan. 20 ceremony will include a range of musical performers. Aretha Franklin, widely known as the “Queen of Soul,” will sing, and violinist Itzhak Perlman and cellist Yo-Yo Ma will be members of a quartet performing selection composed by John Williams.
\nYale University professor Elizabeth Alexander will read a poem and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chairman of the inaugural committee, will give welcoming remarks.
\n“The inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama will be an event of historic proportion,” said Feinstein, D-Calif. “It is appropriate that the program will include some of the world’s most gifted artists from a wide range of backgrounds and genres.”
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\nBy Adelle M. Banks
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