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Majesty of the Spiritual

An Encore Presentation

 

The Stunning Acoustical Rendering and Broadcast
A Quintessential Live Majesty Experience

 

One Epic Event, 21 Dynamic Performances

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• 12 Singers from the World’s Opera Houses Come Together in An Extraordinary Collective Experience
• Witness the Blockbuster Evening that Won Our Hearts and Seared Itself into Our Memory
• Discover Majesty in Broadcast Quality and the High Resolution Concert Hall Sound of Encore On Demand (4K HD)

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Majesty of the Spiritual

Parts I, II & III

With classical music ascendant in Europe, half a globe away, forcibly subject to enslavement throughout the two continents, a crushing voicelessness and namelessness descended upon the experience and histories of millions Americans of African descent. Direct from the artistic imagination, carried on an ascendant note, a profound call can not be repressed, and rises out of the centuries of an unbreakable system, the human heart beating against a belief system history records savagely brutalizing lives, bodies, fortunes, spirits, hopes, futures and aspirations of all in its wake.

Spirituals have alternately served as guideposts on the pathway to virtue and godliness; blueprints to redemption; the clarion vision of the attainment of a spiritual and material freedom. Gradually, they have come to shape our contemporary experience in ways both very deeply embedded and commonplace.

The concert hall Spiritual emanates in a direct line from this history as a tradition of hope born out of the unimaginable suffering of enslaved generations of Americans. On the stages of the US and Europe, performances forged of this centuries-long demand and deep appeal for emancipation are transformed, and widely received by audiences as a seminal declaration of hope for humanity.

Throughout an astonishing evening, an unparalleled colloquy of artists gathered in San Francisco and reached to these heights – to this very same call of ages – what creator Robert Sims termed as that centuries-long plea of a people in trouble. A magnificent musical creation, unified in a brilliant tour de force, this unforgettable concert embodies a genre fully fixed at the heart of the American idiom. In a major American presentation, this musical source unmistakably cements its place at the core the classical music canon.

Majesty of the Spiritual is a tribute to the indomitable spirit of a people and a legacy that has shaped the expression of classical music for all time.

 

Majesty of the Spiritual
Presented by Noontime Concerts and Classical Soundscape Productions
in association with
THE LIVING HERITAGE FOUNDATION

 

SEE MAJESTY PROGRAM DETAILS

Interview and Conversation with Creator Robert Sims

31 minutes, 54 seconds

 

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Three Parts, Three Composers        

 

Part I Featuring the Compositional Works of Lena McLynn
Part II Featuring the Compositional Works of Roland Carter
Part III Featuring the Compositional Works of Jacqueline Hairston	​

 

 

 

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The Artists of Majesty of the Spiritual

       

MUSICIANS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE

SUSHEEL BIBBS	SOPRANO
ROBERT SIMS	BARITONE
DANIEL LOCKERT	PIANO
EDWARD GRAVES	BARITONE
EDWIN JHAMAL DAVIS	BASS
CARL BLAKE	PIANO
SHAWNETTE SULKER	SOPRANO
HOPE BRIGGS	SOPRANO
DONNIE RAY ALBERT	BARITONE
BYRON BURFORD-PHEARSE	PIANO
RAEHANN BRYCE-DAVIS	MEZZO-SOPRANO
FREDERICA VON STADE	SOPRANO
JAMES MEREDITH	PIANO
LOUISE TOPPIN	MEZZO-SOPRANO
MARQUITA LISTER	SOPRANO
CYNTHIA CLAREY	CONTRALT
FREDERICA VON STADE	MEZZO-SOPRANO
JAMES MEREDITH	PIANO
CYNTHIA CLAREY	CONTRALTO