Vinroy D. Brown, Jr.
Nov. 9, 2018
(PRINCETON,
NJ) -- Westminster Jubilee Singers will present a concert titled
“Examine Me” on Sunday, November 18 at 7:30pm in Bristol Chapel on the
campus of Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton. Led
by the ensemble’s conductor, Vinroy D. Brown, Jr., the program explores
the Psalter (book of Psalms) and includes settings by African American
composers.
The program features Psalm I by Nathan Carter, “The Lord is My Shepherd, Alleluia” from Adolphus Hailstork’s I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes, Margaret Douroux’s Day and Night Praise and works by Cedric Dent and M. Roger Holland.
Composed
of students selected by audition, the Westminster Jubilee is modeled
after the historically acclaimed Fisk Jubilee Singers. Its repertoire,
while specialized and select, is very diverse and focuses on solo and
ensemble artistic expressions from its singers. Part of Westminster
Choir College’s Sacred Music Department, the ensemble performs
literature that includes African-American spirituals and folk songs;
classical music by African-American composers; African chants and
dances; gospel music and secular songs by musical greats such as William
Dawson, Duke Ellington, Patti LaBelle, Walter Hawkins, Quincy Jones,
Andre Crouch, Richard Smallwood, Kirk Franklin, Dr. Nathan Carter, as
well as Westminster graduates, Rosephanye Powell, Donald Dillard and
Roger Holland. Also explored and performed are works by
non-African-American composers, including George Gershwin, Alice Parker,
Robert Shaw, Robert Page, Gail Poch, Steve Pilkington and others who
have composed and/or arranged music of the African-American experience.
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