NEGRO SPIRITUALS
T has always been recognised that the American Negro possesses a great enthusiasm for and instinctive talent in music, and during the 20th Century the growing popularity among the American white community of Negro religious songs greatly increased the public interest in it. Spiritudls were introduced professionally to New Zealand in 1887 by the Fisk Jubilee Singers, a company of genuine Southern ex-slaves, whose
leader was a Professor White. The company was here again in 1888, 1904, and 1910. Through the U.S. Office of International Information, the NZBS has received a series of programmes of Negro spirituals featuring the Fayetteville State Teachers’ Negro Choir from North Carolina (George Van Hoy Collins, conductor), the Sidelia Singers (directed by Rufus A. Brent), the Metropolitan A Capella Choir, of Seattle (Joseph Polk, conductor), the Atlanta Spelman-More-house Choir, of the Southern State of Georgia (Kemper Harreld, conductor),
The Howard University Choir of Washington (conductor, Warner Lawson), and the North Carolina College Choir (under the direction of James E. Dorsey). Listenters will hear the first of six programmes, called The Voice of America, from 2YA at 7.30 p.m. on Monday, June 20. Thereafter they will be broadcast weekly on Mondays at the same time.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 520, 10 June 1949, Page 8
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