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Two of Canada's finest choirs join together for the world premiere of this uplifting vocal celebration of North American spirituals.
The Nathaniel Dett Chorale focus on the preservation and performance of Afrocentric music based on classical, spiritual, gospel, jazz, folk and blues roots, while the Elmer Iseler Singers are one of Canada's foremost professional choirs with a repertoire covering 500 years of choral music.
The spectacular voices of these choirs will blend in the performance of spirituals like "Deep River," "Going Home" and, of course, "Amazing Grace."
The symmetry of the local connections to both groups is not lost on Lydia Adams, the conductor of the Elmer Iseler Singers since 1998. As she told me recently, the “harmonic convergence” of both groups here in Niagara was almost pre-ordained due to the fact Iseler came originally from Port Colborne, receiving an honourary doctorate from Brock University, in fact. The Nathaniel Dett Chorale meantime, takes their name from the celebrated African-Canadian composer R. Nathaniel Dett, who was born in 1882 in Drummondville, now Niagara Falls, and lived until 1943.
PROGRAMME
Elmer Iseler Singers and Nathaniel Dett Chorale
Amazing Grace - traditional, arr. Eriks Esenvalds
My Soul Hath Found Refuge In Thee - Evelyn Simpson Curenton
Elmer Iseler Singers
Sharon Fragments - John Beckwith Five Spirituals (from 'Child of Our Time') - arr. Michael Tippett
Steal Away
Nobody Knows
Go Down, Moses
By and By
Deep River
Amazing Grace - traditional, arr. Ron Smail
INTERMISSION
Nathaniel Dett Chorale
Amazin' Grace - traditional, arr. Wendell Whalum
Set Me As A Seal Upon Thine Heart - Adolphus Hailstork
I Am the Rose of Sharon - Ivo Antognini
I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes - Adolphus Hailstork
Nathaniel Dett Chorale and Elmer Iseler Singers:
Walk Together Children – traditional spiritual, arr. Moses Hogan
Precious Lord - Thomas A. Dorsey, arr. Arnold Sevier
Amazing Grace - traditional, arr. Len Ballantine
PROGRAMME SUBJECT TO CHANGE
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| Thursday, February 21, 2013 | 7:30 p.m. |
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