For the first time, traditional Negro spirituals will be sung as an opera, when Seattle Opera hosts the world premiere of ...

They just hoped their talents as singers and the beauty of their songs would be enough to keep ... the university was share the beauty of the Negro spiritual worldwide,” said Marlette Buchanan ...

Nobody plays ‘Unit Structure’ in a jam session! That album took us four months of rehearsal.” Tyshawn Sorey is absolutely a composer, one who seems to enjoy working on a grand scale. His 2016 album ...

His songs earned rave reviews from Robert Hilburn of The Los Angeles Times, and A-list audience members like ... "Why Me," a stirring spiritual song that's become one of his most enduring ...

Image Installation of “Primitive Negro Art, Chiefly from the ... The words are lifted from a 19th-century Black spiritual called “Wade in the Water.” The song’s lyrics sound upliftingly ...

The African-American spiritual played an important role in the lives of enslaved people prior to emancipation. The songs fostered a sense of togetherness ... all you can about your people through ...

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The influence of gospel music stretches far and wide, and the best gospel singers, too, cover a wider range of styles, as this list ... song material and blues touches to his spiritual material.

Sax player, composer and Boston Public Schools teacher, Gregory Groover, Jr. COURTESY PHOTO Gregory Groover: It’s a combination of both originals and my interpretation of Negro spirituals ... an ...

Filmmakers like Andrei Tarkovsky, Theo Angelopoulos, Béla Tarr, and Ingmar Bergman elevated their movies into profound meditations on humanity and its myriad spiritual ways of interacting ... based on ...

But perhaps the most jaw-droppingly creepy song of all time is Eddie Noack's 1968 recording "Psycho," a song that finds the ...