One Voice Chorus of Richmond
Performs at Norfolk State University
Norfolk, Va.—The
One Voice Chorus from Richmond, Va. will close out Norfolk
State University’s 2006 Black History Month celebration with
their Don’t Feel No Ways Tired concert Sunday, March
5 at 4:30 p.m. in the
L. Douglas Wilder Performing Arts Center. The concert is
free and open to the public.
Narrated by Sabrina Squire, anchor for
Richmond’s Channel 12 News, Don’t Feel No Ways Tired
presents traditional African-American spirituals arranged by
composers spanning almost a century. The production
includes projected images of fine art and photography to
create a rich cultural experience of music and visual arts.
The work of Richmond African-American artists William E.
“Blue” Johnson and Judith Wansley will also be featured.
The One Voice Chorus began as a
conversation between Glen McCune, the music director at
Saint Giles Presbyterian Church, a mostly white church
located in the West End, and Barbara Baynham, long-time
director of music of Ebenezer Baptist Church, an
African-American Church located in Jackson Ward that was
founded before the Civil War. Although formally incorporated
as a nonprofit organization in 2004, the community-based
chorus has been performing together for four years.
This past November, 115 members of the
One Voice Chorus presented Mendelssohn’s Elijah with
orchestra for an audience of almost 1,000 people in the
Greater Richmond Convention Center. The chorus has also
performed Mass in C by Franz Shubert, Gospel Mass by Robert
Ray, two productions of Handel’s Messiah, and Walk
Together, Children, a program of spirituals, narration and
multimedia images. This spring, the chorus will present a
program of American choral music featuring Randall
Thompson’s The Peaceable Kingdom.
For more information, call the Office of
News and Relations at 823-8373.
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