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Jubilee Singers
The Jubilee Singers will take you near to God. Book your tickets and feel the peace withing yourself.
Hartwig Eichberg is the one who, currently, directs the Jubilee Singers. He is a concert pianist with an ear for perfection, beauty and a passion for the Spirituals. These Spirituals are kept in a traditional style, as gathered from relatives, friends and neighbors who remembered the oral tradition of music that was born out f plantation life in the Old South. The Jubilee Singers are a group of cappella choral that is dedicated to sharing the beautiful harmonies as well as stirring emotions of the original African-American Spirituals.
It was in the year 1871, when Geoff L. White, a school treasurer and music teacher, hoping to raise funds for Fisk University, borrowed money and set out with nine student singers for a tour in spite of the university's approval. Facing hardships and indignities, this nameless and almost penniless group planned going abroad to raise money to save their school from bankruptcy and closure. The singers ranged in the age from fifteen to twenty-five years and all of them were the former slaves or children of slaves. At first they were unsuccessful financially, so the group abandoned its classical, popular repertoire for powerful, spirituals that will move the audiences as well as slave songs. The group then named themselves as Jubilee Singers. The name was adopted from the bible, that referred to the time of jubilee and freeing of all slaves. Although Geoff White was without any musical training, still he sang well, was a gifted singer and was dedicated to music and had the talent of getting the utmost from his gifted singers. As a result the Jubilee Singers were able to impress the audience with their music that was entrancing and inspiring.
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Artist Biography - Jubilee Singers
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 They toured throughout the United States and Europe and eventually raised $150,000 securing the school's future. They purchased Fisk's present campus old Union Frot Gillem in North Nashville and built Jubilee Hall. It was the first permanent building in America for the education of blacks, which is now designated as a national historic landmark. The school began as a free school that provided primary through college education for newly freed slaves, Fisk was founded in the year 1866. Every year Fisk celebrates Jubilee Day on October 6, commemorating the original Jubilee Singers who sang before the kings, queens and heads of state and who captured the hearts of many and who by sheer determination and commitment introduced to the world the beauty and tradition of the Negro spiritual and also saved their university.
The unique feature is that the spirit in which the original group and the groups thereafter have tried to maintain a spirituality and a closeness to God. They have a kind of deep-seated foundation and closeness to God. In the year 1998, the Jubilee singers performed in the concert in Hawaii theater. They also performed the excerpts from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess with the Honolulu Symphony in Honolulu. During their winter tour, they were invited to record a program for the award-winning radio program "Saint Paul Sunday Morning". Meanwhile, the Jubilee Singers appeared on the New Year's Eve in 1998 before a worldwide TV audience, that was telecast in Shanghai, China. The Jubilee Singers appeared in Carnegie Hall for Mid-America Productions in the year 1999, where they sang works by Nunes-Garcia and Lawrence Farrow. They also performed in a series of concerts in the same year in Argentina, Uruguay, Japan and finally Europe. In the year 2000, they completed the tour of Spain with a major concert in the National Recital Hall, Madrid. In the same year, they gave a major performance in the John Anson Ford Theater, Los Angeles and then were invited to perform at North America in Taipei, Taiwan, at the International Choral Festival. They also performed for the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and the Montgomery County Community College in February, 2001.
Presently, Hartwig Eichberg directs the Jubilee Singers. E is a concert pianist with an ear for perfection, passion and beauty for the spirituals. Most of these Spirituals are kept in the traditional style that has been passed on from ages from relatives, friends and neighbors, who remembered the oral tradition of music born out of plantation life in the Old South.
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For more information , enjoy the official homepage of Jubilee Singers
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