American Spiritual Ensemble returns to Worcester to mark the completion of Everett McCorvey’s Artist-in-Residency with a massive production featuring soloists, instrumentalists, and narrators from the Worcester community. God’s Trombones is Fred Waring’s musical arrangement of James Weldon Johnson’s 1927 book of poems, God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. Spoken word elements of the work will be read by leaders in Worcester’s Black community. “The old-time Negro preacher of parts was above all an orator, and in good measure an actor. He knew the secret of oratory, that at bottom it…
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Wed, Jan 27 · 7:00 PM
