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oh yes we woke up to spotlight the interview show on our t.v. i pod do not answer them i guess on the program is jason fervid. had written a blues stop the world stage to get these so-called black stars originate in the religious carl singing the famous gospel as more and more confuse stop oh crap to get that rush i just couldn't stay inside one of the biggest days in the gospellers is the oakland university's elliot's they came to moscow as part of the american season's first in my studio today is jason affair and the film director and leader of the famous american frog. modern gospel can be traced to the eighteenth century but in fact it's originates from two thousand year old church music in the beginning of the trenches century gospel transcended church services and became an independent jenner through the years since influenced commune are a small music styles and artists like elvis presley ray charles and michael jackson

used gospel elements in their music veolia says of the word winning choir based apps university it was holding the highest over half a century ago and as the singers often traveled around the globe they were made friendship investors for the usa. later the the. all right. we're right there after.

the. murder. deferred and welcome to the show thank you so much thank you thank you thank you very much i think during a time of this being here in the studio you spent your challenge in trinidad and back which is. in the middle of nowhere most of the russians were 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 plus filled with a lot of cultural life and music is a huge proud of the caribbean music really using the look so so. origins from west african music you know is in the us. so so so so so living there in trinidad was was being part of the other great old music culture right but as you said. the

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

a musical background to what i think because they wanted one another had one but they made the children good do it initially was something you had to do but eventually my love grew and it wasn't until my second year in college university i decided to do. music so human they would turn you down to use a video 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 but it was considered that if you were a child probably from a well to defend the you have to take that is that the same. thing well i. write listen when did you first hear the gospel the real gospel and wonder what impression did it give you to be back and listen to the whine and commission the gospel or one of my favorite groups then and still is now. having to be graduates

a universe to the group take six which i know a bit here in moscow so those are my early records recollections of those from music and what was the impression you got they did you know like i talked for example apart and said one of the first saw was on an airplane i decide i'll become a pilot when the first heart heard gospellers this you give me proof that this is what you'll be doing a life this is that good for you. choral music for me anything that involves many people getting together to put us together always appealed to me so earlier and there was my impression of this was something i want to be part of well please enlighten this about the origins of gospel music that it actually a religion i mean it is a black music a black religious music right what does it come from how did how did it happen and

how like. the. poor those music us to the whole improvise ation elements which goes works of the sleeper in america. where did it how. music she everything was passed on orally. and the level of improvise ation and then as the movements of the church scene just continue around the star will be introduction of instruments down bass and drums the slaves that have access to so you can develop as it continues to develop ossuaries it will simply must continue to grow to so so you consider to be so a young as you are still here. i would say so i mean compared to classical music is is way behind you know. what your honour's of modern music. originates and oday existence to gospel music but what so jazz oh you say you know it you know you have this new thing called contemporary gospel music and. neil

gospel music top class grace i was right you have so many different categories and i like we said he keeps evolving so it went and what's your what's your attitude to this contemporary gospel you know the music you do the classical stuff we did last year stuff when you know music will always reflect what's happening in society so i think they go hand in hand so as society develops and things start becoming more open exposed gospel music will continue to evolve what's your attitude to. using the gospel tradition in pop music where the lyrics and the lifestyle has nothing to do with. you know that could be a argument for the ages you know some people and see or feel anything wrong with that as a person truly believes in the gospel of the church represents sometimes it can

feel a little bit oval and saying one thing but the lifestyle and calls this is something totally different so it doesn't feel can bruin's all the time. what thought well you mentioned. you mentioned my music you mention contemporary contemporary dance. well when you listen to music in general well. the reason our asking this question because i'm i'm pretty dissatisfied with what i hear today not only russian pop music also ansel merican pop in which popular music what's happening to the have been question that that show business is killing is killing just killing really popular music yes the music has been war to dumbed down for many reasons i think you know ten twenty years ago you'd have more live musicians playing on cds and records and real orchestras were someone to get a keyboard now and just play strings in your bedroom so it's been worth. it

probably takes less skill to do what we hear now that's probably why we don't like it. it seems to mean like an computer because because because because our show because it's made made for television for for this goes for nightclub 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 about retailers do this so so i mean the very reasons economics timeliness of why do people care about that how many people should care. when me and you were kids and we did care about guitars or bad drums keyboard. the young people don't seem to hear music i mean it's ok something to put on any of your carsley well i'd say you know we call this the microwave generation here but something and they want to. take us a long time to produce these things and you know i will some time to natalie cole i

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

a car and we recently had a view from the wind and the sea sing off six six guys for the mountain to teach at oakwood 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 reporter so that's in my car now so if you. go over there you know it is well i guess my studio is jason now the conductor and leader of the famous american choir the spotlight will be back shortly after the break so stay with us they were your exams.

to a substantial degree and one form or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of the earth and the shadow is encroaching upon our own liberty. to leave early twenty first century military bases the network of military bases all around the world for misleading empire that the united states is trying something that's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around. we don't have power bases in america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in in cross our bases are fine there are the noises our north as it doesn't bother us at all because they're our bases but for other people it's almost like

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i read read. read. read and i lay. there. ed. welcome back to spotlight on al green or even just to remind you that my guest on the show today is jason ferdinand the conductor and leader of the famous american coralie oh yes mr friedman. you are saying this is actually gospel choir so is it true that gospel music is really popular only in english speaking countries is that true hope things english speaking world have never had

a gospel song in french have you or german i actually been pretty intrigued in the last three or four years i countries like denmark and career i've seen some and sweden now seen some clips of some pretty impressive gospel corps that are some friends of america the. richest small in the williams this country seems to embrace the style and boot for the world but you know it's pretty popular america but i think other countries are slowly beginning to but is this mostly will be the choirs that you heard these in denmark do they did they do it on stage where they also do it in church i've seen it on stage. i'm not so familiar with the church since who knows country is singing on stage you are 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 in their members on the same church that you think you know you two

you know a lot of our students in this group you know their parents were part of this group we have one kid on this trip he's third generation singer in the score so it's going to lenience. i think they are so so this is not this is not a good it's really like if you know to believe. you know we can anyone it just happens or could university their interests church. has a very unique sport in the culture of our church so a lot of other kids come. knowing already the traditions of their parents came well you really made me well bill when you when you said that you saw the happening and then marc klaas because there's i wanted to ask you that the gospel being mostly men mostly of black culture yes we would you imagine that all white squires so you can imagine you've seen or have seen them work yeah yeah well but still it's like there's people i mean there are there are the good wife. yeah i reckon you

do believe this is so do you think that gospel as basketball should be a black thing i mean because because because of the nature of the culture right i mean it kind of goes along the pentagon's work 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 whether it can be taught just like just like you can teach classical music things in gospel music that i think that can be taught so there you see your mission like i like your mission in this life in spreading the word of gospel and promoting the american african culture around the world i do. the group of the kids. is saw on spreading the love of god in little girls' school through our 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 few 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 get the people that we saw feel what is being said. if that makes things a year you know you're going to we you know we want to be able to sing a song and if we were quote a song should be the song really happy you. the song is talking about some kind of deep pain and so yes you want to try as they will 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. like jazz in general is the music of the fact 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 who don't bring it up right when you're home. making them know the things. you're going through so there's a whole new. lease of the gospel of jesus. we've always worked towards that hope is good dies last. stays that stays there to the last minute you realize but recent laughter not of humans that probably probably faith doesn't last what would you say is it oh well faith. you know yeah. i got you. both i mean i think i things go thank. you know you saw those words and to change it please sometimes.

the third one you can we have love hope faith and love i mean all three all the one thing they all work together with specially when you're in truth when it's the. right. one can hear this think of them and saying we have some gospel sometimes it's personal for the russians very strange when they are gasp and say this is the kind of music you should say you enjoy this sometimes sounds more more like dancing and when we see american movies we sometimes see people dancing to dance and of how do you think how compatible is that i mean music. dancing in the trees she is not ok for you to do this for russians very strange. my mother grew up from the brits a system. here. her reservation supplies wooden block in black america then saying and shouting is all part of the traditions. america is very compatible just different traditions different traditions you mentioned musical

instruments well i mean it is just vocals what are your favorite musical instruments a pianist. is a piano. piano was my main instrument which. few years back and such and while the piano man and. all religious music is pretty canonic so so is there a strict canon or it's mainly and i improvise ation i will you mention and present it as being part of you. know what's the main thing. it's six different forms the poem was. in arkansas tomorrow you'll see a lot of different throws minutes were. not all of us current canonical. another no no lot of it has improved. in all programs some are a lot of. course i planned. but you know we could do the same one song a million times and i kind of turns

a different way each time the sequencing or. the gelati group of particulate on the audience us listening so so it's a different form and feels to among the pieces you perform. pieces classical pieces like haydn is a creation like bram strictly things like that are any new or gospel written that are written out today by our contemporaries did of it because you you mentioned you mentioned that the sky was still developing circle is so written differently and you perform them yes we do like who. could we have so many great composers that have come along and returned sophy chiller those pieces on our program some more we know we have a younger. writing these very complex harmonic things written make things we love doing the new things you know i also encourages the

composers to keep writing and then to have it performed by a group you know that's not so privileged. to do their duty and if you're quoting something that they're like yes. are you performing i mean you acquire does it perform any other shearers of music. except cost for your fuel costs hell. ghosla says of old music his religious would like he said even even in the broadway show the classical of negro spirituals anthems with him arrangements you know see have different rows even under the ok thank you thank your all very much for being with us we have just run out of torricelli i hope we have more of the sadness in just to remind them i guess from the show today with jason furman that he got tripped and the leader of that famous american squire the deal and that's a friend out from all of us here if you have someone in mind who you think i should see me tomorrow does draw fail line algor no ads on t.v.

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