The MP Iris Robinson made headlines internationally for drawing freely on the language of the King James Bible in her description of homosexuality and suggesting that gay people can be "cured".
Playing music from his big-band tribute to Nat King Cole's Spanish-language albums, saxophonist David Murray's Cuban Ensemble occupied the same space as Mr. Bernstein and his Millennial Territory Orchestra, which drew from its new album, a take on the music of Sly Stone.
Martin Luther King Jr. has been quoted countless times as expressing one of America's bedrock values, its language almost sounding like a constitutional amendment on equality.