Excerpts from our February subscription season concert, Voices of the Diaspora… Dett to Africa, will be featured on CBC Radio 2’s Choral Concert program on Sunday morning, April 26 between 8AM and 9:30AM. Check out CBC’s website for more information.

Voices of the Diaspora… Dett to Africa
Sunday, April 26, 2009 – 8AM
CBC RADIO 2

For this concert, NDC was joined by more than 25 former alumni, including Peter McGillivray and Justin Bacchus, who can be seen in this YouTube video performing one of pieces featured on the program – R. Nathaniel Dett’s Chariot Jubilee. Also featured were a number of other works by Dett, as well as the Ontario premiere of Canadian composer Brian Tate’s Africa (commissioned for the National Youth Choir, and containing a combination of Ghanaian and Latin sacred texts), which was premiered by us in Alberta, British Columbia and the Yukon earlier in February during our Western Canada tour.