Saturday, June 7, 2025 at 8pm
Grace Church-on-the-Hill
300 Lonsdale Road Toronto, ON M4V 1X4
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The program ‘Shout for Joy’ combines several elements of black music idioms, including classical, jazz, gospel, blues, and spirituals.
The first half of the program comprises a 150th Anniversary retrospective of the music of the Afro-British composer, conductor and political activist Samuel Coleridge-Taylor hailed by 20th-century critics as a “musical genius”.
The second half of the program comprises arrangements of and variations on the Spiritual. The title is drawn from the third last piece on the program and pays homage to the historical Jesus as a freedom figure.
In his book The Spiritual and the Blues, James H. Cone states that Jesus was not the subject of theological questioning, but rather an experience, a historical presence in motion, liberating and moving people in and to freedom. This program focuses on the jubilation and celebration inherent in both the idea and experience of this freedom.
Tickets range from $15 to $45
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