Hello Members of TSP.  This is your page. It was created to be a hub for disseminating information, such as upcoming rehearsals and events, and to assist you with learning the various pieces of music that we will be performing.  I hope you find it to be a helpful resource. .

WELCOME!

M. Roger Holland, II

Director

The following link will take you to the DU Lamont School of Music webpage that has information about The Spirituals Project, including our current performing activities.  Feel free to share it with your friends, but not our portfolio page, which is private and exclusively for TSP members.  The Lamont homepgae has a list of "Special Pages" at the bottom (this is an update). The very first item on the list is "The Spirituals Project Choir."

Lamont Home Page: https://www.du.edu/ahss/lamont/index.html

Direct link to The Spirituals Project page: https://www.du.edu/ahss/lamont/get-involved-hire-us-summer-acad/spirituals-project/

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Monday, February 5th, The Spirituals Project will be the focus of Colorado Public Radio's Colorado Matters, airing at 10:00am and 7:00pm at 90.1 FM.

After the program airs on Monday, a permanent link to the program will be posted in perpetuity on the CPR website (www.cpr.org), on the Colorado Matters page (http://www.cpr.org/news/podcast/colorado-matters), where anyone can access the full program online at a time that is convenient for them.

10/27/18 - Evening news

Wednesday rehearsal schedule in preparation for Feb. 27th concert:

• Feb. 5
• Feb. 19
• Feb. 26 - DRESS REHEARSAL

Dear Spirituals Project members,

As mentioned several times in rehearsals, we will be facilitating a series of community conversations around the choir, The Spirituals, race, and social justice to build on the conversations we have had in choir rehearsals and at the retreat in September. Facilitated by Dr. Marquisha L. Scott (Assistant Professor of Social Work) and Aleysia, these series of conversations will take place at the Lamont School of Music before choir rehearsals. Our first community conversation will take place on Monday February 17 from 5:30pm to 6:50pm. We invite any choir member to participate.

We are facilitating these conversations in order to give you space to discuss these issues and to further fulfill the social justice and educational mission of the choir. Marquisha and I also plan to document these conversations as we conduct research on The Spirituals Project and its impact. Though we plan to address  discussion topics that have emerged in our conversations in the choir this year, Marquisha and I would also love to hear from you as we prepare these conversations. What topics have you been thinking about? What do you feel should be discussed in these community conversations? Please let us know!

Please be sure to contact Marquisha (Marquisha.Scott@du.edu) and/or Aleysia (aleysia.whitmore@du.edu) with any questions or concerns.

Hello everyone,

An article was published online in Westword last week about the tribute done at Dazzle to honor our Ed Battle. Here is the link:

Ed Battle article

Here's a YouTube link to Ed performing at the tribute to him at Dazzle on Nov. 25, 2019.  Many thanks to our Jackie St. Joan for sharing this clip, which I posted on YouTube in order to share with the choir.

Roger

Since we are singing "Tshotsholoza,"  I thought some of you might be interested in the documentary Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony, a film about the ways in which song was a part of the resistance to Apartheid in South Africa. You can stream the film via Amazon Prime and the DU library (though I'm sure it is also available elsewhere). I highly recommend the film (warning: I cry every time I watch it). --Aleysia

Here is a list of songs that I plan for us to do for the Feb. 27, 2020 Concert.  Most of them have videos posted.  Please avail yourselves of them and practice your music over the break!

• Tshotsholoza (Go Forward) (Traditional South African Freedom Song – Jeffrey L. Ames
• Lift Every Voice (Carter)
• Hear My Prayer (Moses Hogan)
• I’ve Been ‘Buked (Hall Johnson)
• Great God Almighty – Jester Hairston
• I Cried All Night Long, (Clayton White) 
• Old Ship of Zion (Wings Over Jordan Choir) (Arr. Holland) 
• God’s Gonna Set This World on Fire (Moses Hogan)
• Oh Freedom (arr. Brazeal W. Dennard)
• Ezekiel Saw de Wheel (William Dawson)
• I Know the Lord Laid His Hands on Me (Arlen Hershberger)
• We Are the Ones We Been Waiting For (Bernice Johnson Reagon)
• Roll Down, Justice (Mark A. Miller)
• We Praise Your Name (Jesse Williams)
• Heal Our Land (Oscar Williams)

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