The program will be a retrospective of the development of the spiritual in America, by African-American composers from William Henry Smith to Jester Hairston to William Dawson and others.
Robert Ray – Gospel Mass
William Henry Smith – Ride the Chariot
Jester Hairston – Steal Away
William Dawson – Soon Ah Will Be Done
Moses Hogan – Music Down In My Soul (for women’s voices) and Go Down Moses (for men’s voices)
Rosephanye Powell – The Word Was God
Jeffery Ames – Let Every Thing That Hath Breath
May 5, 2015 7:30 – 9pm : Choral Union & Concert Choir, Spring 2015 Concert at Shryock Auditorium, SIU Carbondale