Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater members perform “Sacred Songs” by choreographer Matthew Rushing. André Thomas, a visiting ...

Historian Michael McGerr and Indiana University African-American Choral Ensemble director ... meaning, and music of the 1960s sacred-jazz movement. Surprisingly, perhaps, most reaction from ...

André Thomas, a visiting professor of choral conducting and conductor of the Yale Camerata at Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music, said spirituals were “all created by the slaves ...