Univox presents a concert of music from the African diaspora by African-American and African-Canadian composers and authors. The program includes sacred motets, spirituals, and sorrow songs.

 

The concert opens with a set by Ontario-born composer Robert Nathaniel Dett. A set of sacred works for Easter complete the first half, and contemporary arrangements, including settings of African American Spirituals, by K. Lee Scott, Rosephanye Powell, Moses Hogan and Greg Jasperse are sung in the second half. Pianist, Lisa Iwasaki guests on solo piano presenting movements from Dett's Magnolia as well as Hailstork's Trio Sonata.