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What makes this more than an above-average recording by an above-average small metropolitan choir is its status as a tribute to an important musician ...Show synopsisWhat makes this more than an above-average recording by an above-average small metropolitan choir is its status as a tribute to an important musician. Moses Hogan, who died suddenly in 2003 at age 46, was a composer and arranger of African-American spirituals and other choral music. His arrangements successfully extend the tradition of complex harmonizations of the spirituals by William Dawson and the other giants of the African-American concert music tradition. Hogan's arrangements are dense, sinuous, and profound, making heavy use of extended harmonies (stacks of thirds) from jazz and exploiting the possibilities of the blue note in more elaborate ways than did traditional arrangements. The cover of this album promises "spirituals by Moses Hogan," which is a little inaccurate -- the Hogan pieces here are all arrangements of existing spirituals, most of them traditional. They are placed at the end of the program, with a variety of other contemporary takes on the music and texts of the spirituals...Hide synopsis
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