 The singing of spirituals is unique to this country. The form as the product of the African American slave experience in Antebellum America. These songs remind us of intense emotion and hardship. These are songs of loss, suffering and displacement, all the while longing for a better home. The yearning for freedom which inhabits these songs mirrors the need of every soul to find deliverance and salvation. We all must "cross over Jordan" to the city called heaven. This album features the Atlanta Boy Choir singing 17 of these spirituals, accompanied by the piano.
Retail $14.00 | Ligonier's Price $11.20 | 17 Tracks
Total Running Time: 66:24 | UPC 881658000860
Released May 2008
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About the Conductor David R. White took the helm of the Atlanta Boy Choir as artistic director and conductor in 2001. Prior to that he was music director of Florida’s Singing Sons Boychoir in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In 1994 he founded the Boy Choir of the Carolinas in Greenville, South Carolina. He has also served as conductor of the Greenville Symphony Orchestra Chorus and director of music at the Second Presbyterian Church of Greenville. There, he founded an annual summer music camp for children and adults. Under his direction, choirs have participated in numerous
festivals throughout the world including the Prague International Choral Festival, the Pacific International Children’s Choir Festival, and the Choral Olympics in Linz, Austria. He has been a conductor on the faculty at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Interlochen, Michigan, as well as the Csehy Summer School of Music in Philadelphia. In addition to conducting, Mr. White has been a featured soloist with numerous choral organizations and orchestras throughout the southeast. He was a member of Robert Shaw’s Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus from 1987–1990. Mr. White is active as a lecturer, adjudicator, and conductor for choral and vocal competitions, workshops, and festivals. He has been a frequent participant in conducting seminars taught by such luminaries as Robert Shaw, Sir David Willcocks, James Litton, Donald Neuen, and Anton Armstrong. Mr. White holds a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from Georgia College.
About the Atlanta Boy Choir For almost fifty years the Atlanta Boy Choir has been delighting audiences around the world. Throughout its history, the choir has traveled and performed in such places as England, Scotland, Wales, France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Italy, Russia, Greece, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Mexico, Canada, as well as numerous locations in the United States. They have performed in the White House on various occasions for several presidents. In 1989 they were presented with a Grammy Award for their Telarc recording of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem in collaboration with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus under the baton of the late Robert Shaw. Other recordings by the Atlanta Boy Choir include In Excelsis, Garden of Beauty, and Dancing Day. |
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