Music of the Afro-American Experience

The
Brooklyn Contemporary Chorus (BCC) will present an uplifting concert of ‘Music
of the African-American Experience’ on Sunday, June 2, 2013 at 4 p.m.
at the historic Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church located at 85 South Oxford
Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11217. Tickets are available at the door for $20. The chorus,
conducted by Aaron Williams who has been the artistic director of the BCC for
more than twenty years, will perform spirituals, anthems and gospel music by
Moses Hogan (Ev’ry Time I Feel The
Spirit), Harry T. Burleigh (Were You
There), William L. Dawson (There Is A
Balm In Gilead), R. Nathaniel Dett (Listen
To The Lambs), Jester Hairston (Elijah
Rock) and Aaron Williams (Lift Ev’ry
Voice). In past years, Williams has conducted the chorus in Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Mass in ‘c’ minor, Beethoven’s Missa
Solemnes and Verdi’s Requiem. 

The
BCC will welcome Haitian-American lyric baritone, Kendrew Heriveaux, who will
present a mini-recital of compositions by African-American composers and will
join the chorus as soloist. Mr. Heriveaux is a recitalist and has extensive
training in opera and musical theater. He has appeared in Once Upon A Mattress, Godspell
and Porgy and Bess. Heriveaux
will be accompanied by Dima Glivinskiy,
graduate of Mannes College and the Peabody Institute in piano. Mr. Glivinskiy
was recently featured as piano soloist in Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1
with the Centre Symphony of Manhattan.

For more
information, please visit our website, www.brooklyncontemporarychorus.org. While you are
there, go to our donate page and make a tax-deductible donation to our chorus
to help continue the presentation of quality concerts in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
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