An
Abendmusik Concert Presentation:
Follow the Drinking Gourd:
“The
Power of African American Music to Inspire”
Diane Goldsmith,
Pianist
Singers Ivan Woods & Shannon Hunt
Sat. February 11,
7:30 PM
Abendmusik, the
concert series sponsored by Music At Morristown United Methodist
Church, continues its 2011-2012 themed season (“Celebrating
American Music”) with a concert on Saturday, February 11, 2012 at
7:30 pm featuring the Follow the Drinking Gourd (Diane Goldsmith,
Pianist with Singers Ivan Woods and Shannon Hunt) in a program
entitled “The Power of African American Music to Inspire”. There
is a suggested donation of $15.00 for adults and $12.00 for senior
citizens. Advance tickets are available ($12 adults/$10 seniors) by
telephoning the church office 973-538-2132. Students with ID are
admitted Free. The concert will be presented at Morristown United
Methodist Church, 50 Park Place (on the Green), Morristown, NJ. Our
facilities are handicapped accessible. There will be a refreshments
available during the event. Please visit our website for more
information: www.morristownumc.com.
Time-honored African
American musical forms and traditions continue to stir the creativity
of composers and arrangers. In this intriguing program for voices and
piano, the musical group Follow the Drinking Gourd will sample the
abundance that’s grown from these amazing roots.
(www.followthedrinkinggourd.net)
They’ll perform spirituals in all kinds of inventive arrangements,
from jazz and tango settings to adaptation as anthems of the civil
rights marches of the 1960s. Then, the group will show how the blues
inspired composers like Harold Arlen (“The Wizard of Oz”) and
George Gershwin to write in this style.
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