It’s funny how we forget things.
A couple years ago, my touring program included Dawson’s “Ezekiel Saw De Wheel.” After the concert a colleague who had been in the audience exclaimed, “Wow! I’d forgotten all about that piece. I’m going to program that!” Sure enough, the score was in her choir’s folders when I visited her classroom the next semester.
When designing our programs, so many of us tend to breeze past gems of the choral repertoire with a “been there, done that” dismissiveness. With that idiosyncrasy in mind today, here’s another little gem from the same genre as the aforementioned Dawson work; in this case "Poor Man Lazarus" (Hairston) performed by the Goshen College Men's Chorus (Scott Hochstetler, conductor) from the 2012 ACDA Central Division Conference in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Austen Wilson says
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