JOURNEYING TOGETHER

West Jersey Chamber Music Society

Closes its 2020–21 season with Journeying Together, a free live stream concert on Sunday, May 23 at 7:30 pm.

The West Jersey Chamber Chorale pairs spirituals from the African-American and European-American traditions of the 1860s. We explore the commonalities that led both communities on a journey to heaven.
 
The program includes arrangements by composers Moses Hogan, Alice Parker, Hall Johnson, and Jester Hairston, among others. The talented WJCMS singers, plus host Ivan Woods, will contrast the roots, characteristics, and themes shared among these musical traditions. Journey through mankind’s earthly struggles to the divine aspirations that unite us.
 
The Performers:
  • West Jersey Chamber Chorale
  • Ivan Woods, narrator
 
This program includes:
Such traditional spirituals as “Walk Together, Children,” “Let the Church Roll On,” and “Hark, I Hear the Harp’s Eternal,” among others.
 
We thank our sponsors:
  • This concert is generously sponsored by DJK Roofing LLC.
  • WJCMS is grateful to Cigna for its support.
  • Funding is made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts / Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts through a grant to the Burlington County Board of Commissioners.