We’ll enjoy music by Handel, new arrangements of familiar spirituals and hymn tunes, as well as Adrian Dunn’s Requiem from The Unarmed Child, a work that marries traditional requiem format with lyrics performed by rapper Daniel Shegog. Mona Isler serves as your host. Mona Seghatoleslami is the producer.
As is traditional at the Glee Club concerts they open with this work:
Brothers Sing On - Grieg/arr. Howard D. McKinney
Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite - George F. Handel
Strong Son of God - George Elvey/arr. Wendell Whalum
Amazing Grace - arr. Derrick Montgomery (solo: B’Nathaniel Orlu, Baritone)
“Requiem” from The Unarmed Child - Adrian Dunn and Michael Bussewitz-Quarm (soloists: Lesh’In Edwards, Tenor and Daniel Shegog, Rapper)
What’s Going On - Reynaldo Benson, Alfred Cleveland and Marvin Gaye/arr. Rollo Dilworth (solo: Londarius Anderson, Tenor)
Evil Shall Not Prevail - Wallingford Riegger
Obi Dimkpa - Laz Ekweme (Sung in Igbo)
Betelehemu - Olatunji/Whalum (Sung in Yoruba)
Keep a Inchin’ Along - arr. Hall Johnson (solo: Desmond Thompson, Tenor)
Were You There? - arr. Marques L. A. Garrett
He Never Failed Me Yet - Robert Ray (soloists: Londarius Anderson, Tenor and M. Washington, Tenor, Desmond Thompson, Pianist)
The Morehouse College Hymn - J.O.B. Moseley, ’29