This section will be totally committed to my love for African American Spirituals!

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Over the past few years I have become deeply fond of this beautiful genre of music. I have performed them in various recitals and concerts and every time I sing a spiritual I feel that I am somehow a part of it and that it is speaking to me. It is undeniable that these expressive and moving songs are a telling part of my heritage, sung predominatly during the time of slavery, they gave the people struggling in that time a sense of togetherness, strength and hope.

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Favorite Recordings

Marian Anderson: Softly Awakes My Heart
Denyce Graves: Angels Watching Over Me
Barbara Hendricks: Give Me Jesus,The Moses Hogan Singers
Negro Spirituals:  Moses Hogan Chorale
Tuskegee Institute Choir: William Dawson Songs
Fisk Jubilee Singers: Every Time I Feel The Spirit
Paul Robeson,:Spirituals
The Essential Leontyne Price: Spirituals, Hymns, Sacred Songs


Favorite Books

From Spirituals to Symphonies, African American Women Composers and their Music By: Helen Walker Hill

An Index to African American Spirituals for Solo Voice (music reference collection) By: Kathleen A. Abromeit

Wade in the Water, The Wisdom of the Spirituals By: Arthur C. Jones

The Oxford Book of Spirituals By: Moses Hogan (editor)

The Books of American Negro Spirituals By: James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson

Other

www.negrospirituals.com
www.questia.com (choral music)
www.spiritualsproject.org
www.singers.com
www.moseshogan.com



more to come!!!...