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And Still We Sing... Life, Love and Lullabies
Wed and Sat, May 27 & 30, 2009, 8pm
Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto
This delightful spring concert is full of powerful, haunting and infectious rhythms and melodies. It showcases Adolphus Hailstork’s impressive “Five Short Choral Works”, which include striking settings of Arthur Graham’s “I Will Sing of Life” and the beloved Yeats poem “The Cloths of Heaven”; Ricky Ian Gordon’s “Three By Langston”, settings of love poems by famed poet Langston Hughes; and Carlos Alberto Pinto Fonseca’s monumental “Missa Afro‐Brasileira”, based on Afro‐Brazilian rhythms and lullabies. This occasion also marks the official debut performance of the Nathaniel Dett Chorale’s Training Choir which is comprised of talented senior high school students of African Heritage from across the Greater Toronto Area.
Tickets for Glenn Gould Studio concerts are available in person at the Roy Thomson Hall box office, 60 Simcoe St., by telephone at (416) 872‐4255 or online at www.roythomson.com.
Media Contact: Victoria Lord, (416) 484‐9047.
The Nathaniel Dett Chorale is Canada‐s first professional choral group dedicated to Afrocentric music of all styles, including classical, spiritual, gospel, jazz, folk and blues. These 21 classically trained, outstanding vocalists have shared the stage with internationally recognized artists such as Juno Award-winning jazz pianist Joe Sealy, opera star Kathleen Battle, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. The Nathaniel Dett Chorale’s mission is to build bridges of understanding, appreciation and acceptance between communities of people, both Afrocentric and other, through the medium of music. They seek to dissolve the barriers of stereotype, to empower humans in general, and those of African descent in particular.
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