Dr.
Hansonia Caldwell writes:
Greetings
Dr. Zick -- Hope all is well with you.
So
much for retirement! Our Jester Hairston project is going well.
Please share this with fans and friends of the Spiritual! Every
donation will help.
HELP
KEEP AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSICAL HISTORY ALIVE!
It
is our pleasure to invite you to become a supporter of the Jester
Hairston Documentary Project - a wonderful film about an incredibly
talented composer, arranger, conductor, actor and teacher that I have
been working on for three years with my co-producer, Lillian Benson.
We have launched an IndieGogo campaign to raise money to pay for the
stock footage and music rights needed to tell the story of this
magnificent man who lived a rich and long life:
igg.me/at/hairston-doc
Jester Hairston was a
man of many talents, and is probably best-known for his arrangement
of the Spiritual “Amen” which is featured in Sidney Poitier’s
Academy Award-winning film, Lilies of the Fields. (It is
actually Jester Hairston's voice you hear in the film.) Many of us
know Hairston from his work conducting the Spiritual in churches all
over the country. But Hairston was also active in the early
decades of Hollywood, teaming up with film composer Dimitri Tiomkin
as a choral arranger and later as an actor on television. It has
been fun doing this, and we are getting some great interviews from
musicians, scholars and educators who knew Jester. We
are producing a documentary that will inspire students, singers,
teachers, and composers of today and tomorrow, and we need your help.
We
need to raise funds to pay for the film rights for the excerpts we
are including. Give as little as $10 and as much as $5,000. Your
tax-deductible donation will make a difference!
Please
visit our IndieGogo Site -- igg.me/at/hairston-doc
and
share it with your friends! Don't forget to “like” us on
Facebook as well. Thank you very, very much.
Sincerely,
Hansonia
Caldwell
Lillian
Benson
The
Jester Hairston Film Project
The
African Diaspora Sacred Music and Musicians Program of California
State University Dominguez Hills and its Georgia and Nolan Payton
Archive is undertaking the development of a 60-minute film, Amen
- the Life and Work of Jester Hairston.
Please
visit our website to learn more:
Comment by email:
Bill -- Thank you so much. This will be very helpful. Hansonia [Hansonia Caldwell]
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