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i pod or not and today my guest on the program is jay said a third in. hip hop and written a blues topped the world stage today these so-called black styles originated in the religious carl singing the famous gospel as more and more country style both claps together russia just couldn't stay atop one of the biggest days in the gospel is the oakwood universities you know yes they came to moscow as part of the american season stressed in my studio today is jason ferdinand the conductor and leader of the famous american frog. modern gospel can be traced to the eighteenth century but in fact its original two thousand year old church music at the beginning of the trenches century gospel transcended church services and became an independent jenner through the years its influence communion was more than music styles and artists like elvis presley to ray charles and michael jackson used

gospel alice in their music veolia says an award winning choir they used at university it was older than just over half a century ago and as the saviors often traveled around the globe they were made friendship esther's for the usa. love the we love. the the the. the. the.

the. i. however to further welcome to the show you someone take it thank you frank you very much for. being here in the studio while you spent your challenge in trinidad and bag which is. in the middle of nowhere most of the russian good considered to be from work and africa so how did music come into your life and what kind of music was it true learn sebago is a place filled with a lot of cultural life and music is a huge crowd of the caribbean music cribbage using the look so so. origins from west africa so music you know is in the us so so so so so living there in trinidad was was being part of the other great and old busy culture of writing but as you

said. the caribbean there's calypso rag but is gospel also part of the caribbean musical culture yes and no when i was growing up it slowly became a part and special church but it's funny what i'm doing now and in the caribbean probably have not too much to do so going to america i really delved into choral music a whole lot more so. when did you started to to study music seriously you did you did take piano lessons and started six six interest. and then when you started. here piano lessons it was classical music last classical piano and you did it was because because you wanted to become a musician or your parents forced me first. because they they had

a musical background to what i think because they once had one and never had one day they made the children go do it initially was something eventually my love grew and it wasn't until my second year in college university i decided to do. music. to me daddy isn't there a column today that is a very good look it seems like twenty of their audience is sort of like russians in this house when i was a kid my parents also made me he'd make me think piano lessons not because they love music not because they're but it was considered that if you were a child from a from a well to family you have to take that. well i go. through . when did you first hear a gasp of a real gospel and wonder what impression did they give to be back and listen to the wind and commission the gospel or one of my favorite groups then and still is now.

to be graduates of universe to the group take six which i know a bit here in moscow so those are my early recalled recollections of those for music and what was the impression you got they did you know like i talked for example apart when i first saw it was on an airplane i decide i'll become a pilot when you first how they heard glasgow this you get an impression that this is what you'll be doing in life this instead good for you. corals music for me anything that involves many people getting together to put this together all this appealed to me so earlier and there was my impression that this was something i want to be part of you know will please enlighten this about the origins of gospel music with actually a rigid i mean if it is a black music is the black religious music right what does it come from how did how

did it happen and how like. the. for those music us to the whole improvised elements which goes work to the sleeping american. where did it how. music she everything was passed on orally. the level of improvise ation and then as the movements of the church scene just continued around this time would be introduction of instruments down bass and drums then the slaves would have access to so kind of all of it continuously goalpost musical simple must continue to grow to so so you considered to be so a young yeah. i would say so i mean compared to classical music is is way behind. what modern music. originates and oh they exist and to gospel music. so jazz oh you say you know it you know you have this new thing called contemporary gospel music and. neil

gospel music pop gospel regs are always right you have so many different categories and i like we said a keeps evolving so it went and what's your what's your i think it is contemporary gospel you know the music you do the classical stuff we did last in the state of mind you know music will always reflect what's happening in society so i think they go hand in hand so our society develops and things are becoming more open exposed gospel music will continue to evolve what's your attitude to. using the gospel tradition in pop music with the lyrics and the lifestyle has nothing to do. you know that that could be a argument for the ages you know some people see or feel anything wrong with it as a person truly believes in the gospel of the church represents sometimes it can feel a little bit burgle and saying one thing but

a lifestyle and colson's is something totally different so it doesn't feel can bruin's all the time. what so well you mentioned here you mentioned martin music you mention contemporary contemporary guys. well when you listen to music in general well. the reason i ask you this question because i'm pretty dissatisfied with what i hear today you know when russian pop music also never can pop in popular music what's happening to the have been pression that. show business is killing is killing the killing really popular yes the music has been war to. the for many reasons i think you know ten twenty years ago you have more live musicians playing on c.d.'s and records in real orchestras where someone can get a keyboard now and just play strings will goodrem so it has been warts and probably

takes less skill to do what we hear now that's probably why we don't like it. it seems to mean like in computer because because because because our show because it's made made for television for for this goes for my clothes not really for the soul and right as we produce faster. we find cheaper ways of doing it you know you can get a hundred piece orchestra of course a lot of money whereas i could say my writers do so so i think of the very reasons if you know mix timeliness of why do people care about that how many people should care what should i do when me and you were kids and we did care about about guitars and bass drums keyboard did you know the young people do seem to get music i mean it's ok something to put on any of your kirsty well i should say you know we call this the microwave generation here something and they want to know ten years ago take us a long time so produce these things and you are carlos santana natalie cole i mean

we're really i mean they're that they're around but they're relevant to exactly yeah exactly. society just doesn't want to take the time. used to to produce things that we're used to. but it really boomerangs i mean the. the music industry today the good music culture is not producing names that will live on for a drive i mean one where they get the money but they don't get they don't get the recognition and absolutely right the music back in later on with the last of the test the time now your material it comes out may be good for a week and disappears because i mean there are good groups but i consummate in somebody twenty years from now listening to the best of maroon five i mean that i think. that. we are you listening to music in your car i am one of those heat exchangers. if what i have in my car right now i can tell

you i'm on a car and we recently had a group from one the n.b.c. sing off six six guys for the math and the teacher would call committed to their cities putting us in my car and. i know i have there's another group on campus. doing their thing and nine one reports there's a lesson mark or now so they buy books in. the order you know it is against my studio is jason period now the conductor and leader of the famous american choir the spotlight will be back shortly after the break so stay with us stay where you are then.

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was i i a. welcome back to spotlight on al gore nabhan just a reminder that my guest on the show today is jason ferdinand the connector and leader of the famous american choir of the oh yes mr in that group you are singing gospel this is actually gospel choir so is it true that gospel music is really popular only in english speaking countries is that true hoping we speak i've never i've never had a gospel sent in french have you or a german actually been pretty in tree in the last three or four years or countries like denmark and career not seen some and sweden nothing some clips of some pretty impressive gospel corps. are some friends of america the. richest small in the in

williams that this country seems to embrace. and do pretty well but you know it's pretty plot little america but i think other countries are slowly beginning to see is this mostly will go there the choirs that you heard so you think denmark do they did do it on stage while they also do it in church i've seen it on stage. i'm not too familiar with the church. of singing on stage you are a choir belongs to the church of the seventh day adventists do you consider all the choir members to be true believers i think they are. a lot of work and they're members of the same church thank you yes thank you to you know a lot of our students and listen to you know their parents were part of this group we have one kid on the strip he's third generation singer in the score so it's kind of a lenience. i think they are so so this is not this is not

a good it's really like if you know to believe. we will come anyone it just happens . to you know verse at sea level insist church. has a very unique sport in the culture of our church so a lot of other kids come. knowing already the traditions going to parents care what you really amaze me were when you when you said that you saw the happening in denmark and casper because because i wanted to ask you that and gospel being mostly black culture yeah would you know all white scores so you can as you've seen office even though that work yeah. well but still it's like basketball i mean there are there are the good white men camp or yeah. who did you believe this is how do you think the gospel as basketball should be getting into the black thing i mean because because because of the nature of the culture right i mean it kind of goes along the pentagon's spoken and goes along with what we experience but you know

elements of it can be taught. you know where they get a good and there's another question which can be taught just like this if you can see the music things and gospel music i can the can be taught so there you see your mission like i like a mission in this life in spreading the word are gospel and promoting the american african culture around the world i do. the group with this group with kids. is saw old on spreading the love of god in little girls' school through music . everything that we do and hopefully all the messages that we sing reflect do you so so when you're on a trip like this in moscow do you try to try to translate to give sort of an oral message to the audience so they have a feeling of what you're saying about yes yes and then secondly before we left home we talked

a lot even if we didn't translate can we through our singing the people that we see feel what is being said. if that makes things a year you know you're going you know we want to be able to sing a song and if you like well the song should be the song really happy you. it's almost like i was in front of the painting so yes we want to try and say well yes we want to actually feel it while we sing and hopefully we'll do that more. ok now . for example people people say that for example blues is when a good person feels bad that's why jazz in general is the music of the fact that they have such and such a motto for glasgow ok can you put it in like three hundred. forty words it will go through music just try to bring hope to people don't bring tell right bring it home . making them know the things. so this is

a whole new. lease of the gospel jesus. we've always worked towards hope is what guys lost. and stays there to the last minute of your life but recent lafon arguments probably probably be the last one which is a pope thing. was the definition. of you know yeah. i got you. both i mean i think i things go thank you. and i use a word those words interchangeably sometimes. the third one you can have love hope faith and love i mean all three all. together was specially when you. write. one can hear this think of dancing with some gospel

sometimes especially for the russians very strange when they are gospel and say this is not the kind of music you should say you enjoy this sometimes sounds more like dancing and when we see american movies we sometimes see people dancing to. how do you think how compatible is that i mean music. dancing in the tree she is not ok for you this for russians very strange. my mother grew up from the british system. here. her reservation supplies were in black and black america then saying and shouting is all part of the. work is very compatible so just different traditions different traditions you mentioned musical instruments well i mean. no just vocals what are your favorite musical instruments a pianist. is a piano. piano was my main instrument with trumpet a few years back and such and i were piano is my main instrument. all religious

music is pretty k'naan except so is there a strict canon or it's mainly implied improvisation i will you mention the president has been part of in the second say so what was the main thing. it's different forms the color was. in arkansas tomorrow you'll see a little different thread i was going to explore whether or. not all of us can kind of like i was. a no no no little bit has improved as world in all programs some are a lot of it is course i could planned oh. but you know we could do the same one song a million times and i kind of turns a different way each time disappointing our world of the jello the group of particulate on the audience us listening so so it's it takes different forms and feels every time we do among the pieces you perform. pieces classical

pieces like haydn is a creation like brahms requiem things like that are to any new or gospel the rhythms that are written out today by our contemporaries digitally because here you mention you mention that this file is still developing so it's the written and you do perform them yes we do like who. could we have so many great composers that have come along and return to feature a lot of those pieces on our programs the more we know we have a younger. writing these very complex harmonic things rhythmic things we love the new things you know i also encourages the composers to keep writing and then to have it performed by a group you know us does a privilege the minute you can do it and if you're quoting something that they're like yes. are you performing i mean you're choir does it perform any other

juries of music. except costco your pure costal. gospel a sense of old music is religious with like you said even even in the broad base you have the classical you have legal spirituals you have it anthems you have a hymn arrangements you know c. have different rows even under the ok thank you thank you very much for being with us we have just run out of torah so i don't know if we had more of the sadness in just a reminder that my guest on the show today was jason first and take you directly and leader of the famous american squire the india leaf and that's it for now for all of us here if you have someone in mind for you think i should finish tomorrow does draw feline an alderman out at scotch if he doesn't he will be back before then spams russia today still think if you. was. in the. it was.

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