DECATUR - Brenda Carter's powerful performance during Saturday's "Negro Spiritual Celebration" ensured that no one will easily forget the song, "Soon I Will Be Done with The Troubles of This World." ...
Grace Adele Hochella got the idea for her one-woman play during a visit to a plantation in Colonial Williamsburg more than 10 years ago. Already “claustrophobic and dizzy” from stepping inside the ...
"It was the spiritual song – or Negro Spiritual – that gave hope to American slaves as they cried out to God, asking him to send a “Moses” to lead them out of their bondage as He did with the Hebrew ...
Most people know the lyrics to “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.” Fewer people realize how songs like this, sung by many Africans enslaved in America in the 18th and 19th centuries — that we now call ...
Presents Negro spirituals, sung in pure form as they were a century ago on St. Simon's Island off the coast of Georgia. Introduces each song with explanatory titles and then several women sing them ...
Sixty-four years after the premiere of its signature work “Revelations,” Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has introduced a piece choreographed by interim artistic director Matthew Rushing that ...
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