University Singers concert improves visuals
The genius of the University Singers' musical and artistic director, Noel Dexter, in getting the absolutely correct sound from the group is universally acknowledged.
This is not to suggest that there is one uniformly 'correct sound' for a choir (and 'sound' here is being used to encompass all the elements of good singing - tone, timbre, dynamics, projection, pacing, diction, etcetera) for different songs require different sounds, especially if they span different musical genres.
Amazingly, considering that the singers' repertoire includes many different genres, for all the genres, and for individual songs, the sound is just right. That is to say, not only pleasing but authentic.
The genres covered in the group's 2011 concert season now running at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts (PSCCA), Mona, are: European art music (commonly called 'classical'), Gospel, (Negro) Spirituals, African, Jamaican Folk, American Pop, Rocksteady and Soca.
And in the two-and-a-half-hour-long show, there are more than two dozen individual songs. Every one gave pleasure to the large audience at the PSCCA on Saturday night.
Worthy of being singled out of the cornucopia of riches that the singers provided are the items with inputs by members. For example, audiences will hear a solemnly sung Psalm 23 with a complex, textured arrangement by Franklin Haliburton, as well as his humorous skit-with-song, Ride De Chariot , featuring two gossiping church sisters (Carolyn Reid and Althea McKenzie).
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These soloists performed excellently in the show's first half on Saturday: Dominick Fraser singing Trees , with Sherie-Ann Thomas accompanying on violin; O"Neil Jones singing Ev'ry Time I Feel De Spirit ; Camille Davidson singing I've Been 'Buked ; Roy Thompson singing Ezekiel Saw De Wheel ; Orane Thomas and Marcelle Thomas singing Jesus is Love as a duet; Shauna-Kaye James singing an African song in a medley, African Suite ; and Stephan Sinclair singing in a Buju Banton medley of 'conscious' lyrics, Streams of Consciousness . The soloists all have alternates who will perform at other shows.
In the second half, which always has lighter music, the folk songs include favourites like Mawnin Neighbour , You Tell a Lie , Dalfus Gawn and Some Man Coulda Smart .
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