Music of freedom on Choral Showcase this week, as we honor Juneteenth with new choral works by Trevor Weston; an African Mass; and a work by Margaret Bonds called The Ballad of the Brown King - a cantata about Balthazar, one of the Three Kings who visited the child Jesus, from the Gospel of Matthew.
Show Notes
Traditional: Soon One Mornin' Medley
- Chanticleer
Traditional (arr. Guido Haazen): Missa Luba (An African Mass)
- Muungano National Choir, Kenya
- Boniface Mganga, director
Trevor Weston: My Heart Hath Trusted in God; Rivers of Living Water
- Choir of Trinity Wall Street
- Julian Wachner, conductor
Margaret Bonds: The Ballad of the Brown King
- Laquita Mitchell, soprano; Lucia Branford, mezzo-soprano; Noah Stewart, tenor
- The Dessoff Choirs & Orchestra
- Malcolm J. Merriweather, conductor