Imagine - Jussie Smollett & the National Symphony Orchestra
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Jussie Smollett and the National Symphony Orchestra perform John Lennon's "Imagine" at The Kennedy Center. Part of "Sound Health in Concert: Music and the Mind," June 2nd, 2017.
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