NJSO x Count Basie Center Gospel Choir - September 19, 2021

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021 Thank You Monmouth County Board of County Commissioners

The Count Basie Center for the Arts Gospel Choir Debut Concert in collaboration with NJSO

PROGRAM NJ SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOUND OF MUSIC MEDLEY FROM SOUND OF MUSIC BROADWAY SHOW MOZART D MAJOR FLUTE QUARTET ALLEGRO ADAGIO RONDEAU GEORGE WALKER, LYRIC FOR STRINGS VALDEES, DANZÓN ALMENDRA VELAZQUEZ, BÉSAME MUCHO GARDEL, POR UNA CABEZA VIVALDI PICCOLO CONCERTO ALLEGRO MOLTO

COUNT BASIE CENTER GOSPEL CHOIR Gwen Moten, Count Basie Center Gospel Choir Director

COME HERE JESUS, IF YOU PLEASE Negro Spiritual arr. Roland Carter THE STORM IS PASSING OVER Charles Albert Tindley arr. Barbara W. Baker JEHOVAH SABAOTH

Donald Lawrence

JUST TELL JESUS

Robert J. Fryson

FALLING IN LOVE WITH JESUS

Jonathan Butler

I JUST WANT TO SAY THANKS

Raymond Wise

GOOD GOD VaShawn Mitchell

OH FIX ME, JESUS Negro Spiritual arr. Dr. B. Dexter Allgood TAKE IT TO THE LORD IN PRAYER

Nolan Williams, Jr.

LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING John Rosamond Johnson & James Weldon Johnson arr.

Dr. B. Dexter Allgood Music transcriptions by Dr. B. Dexter Allgood, Assistant Director

NJSO MUSICIANS

Hector Falcon, Violin Kathleen Nester, Flute Sarah Seiver, Cello Michael Stewart, Viola James Tsao, Violin

CBC GOSPEL CHOIR MEMBERS Shannel Barbour Shani Brewer Sam Cofer Hollis Cooper Ellen Crimi Anissa Crisp Carmen Diggs-Pinto George a Esdaile Janet Graham Viveca H. Graham Peggy Hannis Octavia Harrell Karen Henderson Curtis A Hudson Jennifer Hom

Tarika Jean-Pierre Terri Lampley Art Lassiter Maria Jose Lodeiro-Skennion Lori Lustica Elmira Nazombe Scott Nelson Macaire Osmont Amanda Philipson Olivia Renkel Tamara Richardson Jennifer Scheid Charles Thomas Don Corey Washington Band: B. Dexter Allgood, PhD / Assistant Director Mario Banks Craig Capers-Redmond Trayce R. Evans Arthur Graham

LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING

Lyrics by James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) in 1899 Music by John Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954) in 1900 Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the listening skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.

Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, Facing the rising sun of our new day begun Let us march on till victory is won.

Stony the road we trod, Bitter the chastening rod, Felt in the days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a steady beat, Have not our weary feet Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?

We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, Out from the gloomy past, Till now we stand at last Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.

God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, Thou who has brought us thus far on the way; Thou who has by Thy might Led us into the light, Keep us forever in the path, we pray.

Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee, Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee; Shadowed beneath Thy hand, May we forever stand.

True to our God, True to our native land.

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