Excerpt:"Sing Freedom". I Got a Home in-a Dat Rock
One of the seminal American musical traditions, the spiritual is dramatic, powerful, and profoundly beautiful — the bedrock for much of American music that was to follow. Craig Hella Johnson and Conspirare explore here the genre’s wide range of expression and its eloquence in speaking to universal aspects of the human condition. “One of America’s leading vocal ensembles” – International Record Review
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Artists
Conspirare
Choral ensemble
Craig Hella Johnson
Conductor
Composers
Craig Hella Johnson
Leonard De Pa
William L. Dawson
Moses Hogan
David Lang
Michael Tippett
Wendell Whalum
Kirby Shaw
Alice Parker
Robert Kyr
Tarik O'Regan
Contents
CRAIG HELLA JOHNSON · Motherless Child (5'05) LEONARD DE PA · A City Called Heaven (4'02) CRAIG HELLA JOHNSON · Soon Ah Will Be Done... / I Wanna Die Easy (5'53) WILLIAM L. DAWSON · Soon Ah Will Be Done (4'07) CRAIG HELLA JOHNSON · Hard Trials (6'01) MOSES HOGAN · Hold On! (2'59) CRAIG HELLA JOHNSON · Been in de Storm... / Wayfaring Stranger (7'07) DAVID LANG [1957-] · Oh Graveyard (Lay This Body Down) (3'16) WILLIAM L. DAWSON · Ain'-a That Good News! (1'57) MICHAEL TIPPETT · Steal Away (3'20) MOSES HOGAN · Walk Together, Children (2'49) · I Got a Home in-a Dat Rock (3'28) WENDELL WHALUM · Lily of the Valley (3'51) KIRBY SHAW · Plenty Good Room (On the Glory Train) (3'19) ALICE PARKER · My God is a Rock (7'15) ROBERT KYR · Freedom Song (3'37) TARIK O'REGAN [1978-] · Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (4'09)