Here is an article by Jonathan Bernstein which includes a nice section about the Boston Children’s Chorus.
“I went up to the mountain, because you asked me to,” a single voice quietly began. On the morning of April 18th, a memorial service for victims of the Boston Marathon bombings was being held at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston. Midway through the service, the speeches and eulogies gave way to a performance from the Boston Children’s Chorus. read more
The song that then filled up the mourning church, that entered living rooms throughout the country tuning in to the nationally televised memorial, was “Up To The Mountain (MLK Song),” a contemporary gospel number that evokes and re-imagines Dr. Martin Luther King’s culminating vision in his final speech “I’ve Been To The Mountaintop.” The children pushed through the performance with wet eyes, the song swelling to its climax as they cried out lines of hope and hardship. “The peaceful valley few come to know, I may never get there in this lifetime,” they sang, before a final note of reassurance, “But sooner or later, it’s there I will go.” At a time of tragedy and grief, a city and a nation sought solace in a song from an unlikely source.