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guest on the program is jay so unfair to. hip hop and written of those up the world stage today these so-called black styles originate in the religious carl singing the famous gospel as more and more country style both laugh together russia just couldn't stay or suck one of the biggest days in the gas belt is the oakwood universities elliot's they came to moscow that's part of the american season's first in my studio today is jason the third night of the conductor and leader of the famous american frog. modern gospel can be traced to the eighteenth century but in fact it's originates in the two thousand year old church music in the beginning of the trenches century gospel transcended church services and became an independent jam or through the years its influence community has more than music styles and artists like elvis presley and ray charles and michael

jackson used gospel elements in their music veolia says a word winning choir they used at a local university it was sold in our store half a century ago and as disappears often traveled around the globe they were made friendship of passengers for the usa. the courage. the. the low the the.

the the i. for the welcome to the show thank you so much they could have thank you very much egeria time with this being here in the studio will you spend your challenge in trinidad and tobago which is. in the middle of nowhere most of us would consider to be somewhere in africa so how did music come until i think what kind of music was it. as a place filled with a lot of cultural life and versus your music as a huge brother the caribbean music reversing the look so. origins from west africa music is in the us. so so so so so living there in trinidad was it was being part of the great untold busy culture of writing but as you said. the caribbean

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

a musical background to want i think because they wanted one another had one day they made the children go do it initially was something you had to do eventually my last group and it wasn't until my second year in college university i decided to do . music. trinidadians of the article internet is a very good look it seems like trying to their audience is sort of like russians in this hospital but when i was a kid my parents also made me b.b.q. piano lessons not because they love music but it was considered that if you were a child from a from a well to defend you have to think that here is that the same. thing well i birth. right now when did you first hear a gasp of a real gospel and wonder what impression did it give you to be back and listening to the wind and commission. or one of my favorite groups still is now.

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

it happen and how plan. b. . for those music us to the whole improvised elements which goes back to this the sleeper in america. where did it how for music she everything was passed on orally. the level of improvise ition and then as the movements of the church scene just continue around this time will be introduction of instruments bass and drums and the slaves that have access to the kind of alter it continues to develop go through music in the soberness continue to grow to so so you consider to be so a young yeah. i would say so i mean compares a classical music just as it was way behind. what modern music. originates and oday existence to gospel music like what so jazz i know you say you know i will let you know you have the snooping call contemporary gospel music. neil

gospel music pop gospel rates are always right here are so many different categories and like i said it keeps evolving. and what's your what's your attitude is contemporary gospel you know the music you know 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 our society develops and things start becoming more open exposed to gospel music will continue to evolve what's your athletes even to. using the gospel tradition in pop music where the lyrics and the lifestyle has nothing to do with god. 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 i could feel

a little bit of will and saying one thing but the lifestyle nicholson says something totally different so it doesn't feel can brew and all the time. what will you mentioned. you mentioned modern music you mention contemporary contemporary dance. well when you listen to music in general well. the reason our asking this question because i'm pretty dissatisfied with what i hear today you know when russian pop music also on south american pop in which popular music what's happening to do you have been pressured that. show business is killing is killing the killing really the problem i guess the music has been. dumbed down for many reasons i think you know ten twenty years ago you'd have more live musicians playing on cds and records in real orchestras where someone could get a keyboard now and just play strings in the bedroom so there's been work to do it

probably takes less skill to do what we hear now that's probably why we don't like it. seems to mean like on 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 mean the very reasons even though mics timeliness why do people care about that i mean people should care what should i want when me and you were kids and we didn't care about guitars or bad drums key would be the no the young people do seem to care music i mean it's ok something to put on any in your car so you know we call this the microwave generation here for something and they want to know ten years ago take us a long time for produce these things and then turned and actually i mean right i

mean they're they're around but they're relevant to exactly yeah exactly. society just doesn't want to take the time. used to produce things that we're used to. but it really boomerangs i mean the. the music industry today because of music culture is not producing names that will live on for a year 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 will last the test of time now you have material it comes as a bit maybe good for a week and disappears because i mean there are good groups of good icons and magine somebody twenty years from now listening to the best of maroon five i mean that. we are you listening to music in your car and i am.

well out of my car right now i can tell you when i'm on a car i know 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 their c.d.'s 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 a market and so they buy books. or you know it is well i guess my studio was jason 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 very.

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welcome back to spotlight on al gore norman just a reminder that my guest on the show today is jason ferdinand the conductor and leader of the famous american choir of allianz mystery that. you are singing gospel this is actually gospel choir so is it true that gospel music is really popular only in english speaking countries this natural home things english speaking i've never i've never had a gospel set in french have you or german actually been pretty in sri in the last three or four years their countries like denmark and career i've seen some and sweden i've seen some clips of some pretty impressive gospel corps. are some friends of america the. richest small northern williams these countries seem to embrace the style and good for the world but you know it's pretty popular america but i think other countries are slowly beginning to the can but is this mostly will

go there the choirs that you heard seizing them or do they did they do it on stage or they also do it in church i've seen it on stage. i'm not too familiar with the church most countries have singing on stage you are choir belongs to the church of the seventh day adventist do you consider all the choir members to be true believers i think. there are a lot of work in the members of the same church that you're saying in your view you know a lot of us 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 kind of a lineage. 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 any one good it is just our. university. has a very unique sport in the culture of our church so a lot of a lot of kids come. and so. knowing already the traditions for the parents came

well he really made me will when you when you said that you saw the happening and then mark because because i wanted to ask you that and gospel being mostly black culture yeah we would you imagine that all white squires so you can't imagine you've seen or have seen that mark yeah yeah well but still it's like basketball i mean there are there are the big wide men can fly yeah i'm like i. did you believe this is so do you think that gospel as basketball should lead to the black thing i mean because because because of the nature of the culture i mean it kind of goes along the pentago spoken and goes along with what we experience as well you know elements of it can be. you know where they get a good and there's another question whether it can be taught just like this or if you could change classical music things and groceries ago i think that can be taught so do you see your mission like a like

a mission in this life in spreading the word of gospel in promoting the american african culture around the world i do. the group this group with this group of kids. is so on spreading the love of god and local gospel through music. everything that we do and hopefully all the messages that we sing reflect that 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 know what to think 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 to at least feel what is being said. makes the you know you're going we you know we want to be able to sing a song and i feel like well the song should be the song is really happy. the song

is talking about something. 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. ok now. for example people people say that for example blues is when a good person feels. like jazz in general is the music of the fact they have such and such a multi glasgow can you put it there like three hundred. forty words it will go through music to try to bring hope to people don't bring rise bring home. and make them things going. so this is a whole new. lease of the gospel jesus. we've always worked towards that hope is good guys last. the last minute of your life but recent laugh an argument that probably probably

faith the last one which is a pope all faith. in you oh yeah. i got you. both i mean i think i things go thanks. again and i use the word those words and to change your beliefs on. the third one you can have love hope faith and love i mean all three all you want to work together with specially when you cherish when it's. the right. one can hear this thing say of dancing with some gospel sometimes especially for the russians very strange when they are gasp 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 trees he is not ok for you do this for russians very strange

. my mother grew up from the brits this is our. number here. her reservation surprise when black in black america than saying and shouting is all part of the traditions it was in america is very compatible just different traditions different tradition you mention musical instruments well i mean. no just vocals what are your favorite musical instruments a pianist. is a piano. piano was my main instrument up with a trumpet a few years back and such and i would piano has been mentioned. all religious music is pretty canonic so so is there a strict canon or it's mainly in the price ation i will you mention improvisations being part of you in the second. what's the main thing. it's six different forms

the panel was. in arkansas tomorrow you'll see a lot of different throws mixed with. not all of us can kind of like i was. a no no no a lot of it has improved as world and all programs some are a little of a. quarter got planned out but you know we could do the same one song a million times and i kind of turns a different way each time disciplining our you know the gelug a group of particulate on the audience us listening so so it's a different form and feels everything we do among the pieces you perform. pieces classical pieces like haydn is a creation like brahms directly with things like that. any new or gospel written that are written out today by our contemporaries did you know of it because you you mentioned you mentioned that the style is still developing so the written and you

do perform them yes we do like to well in all could we have so many great composers that have come along and return to feature a lot of those pieces on our program some more we know we have a younger person come along writing these very complex harmonic things with make things we love doing the new things you know i also encourages the composers to keep writing and then to have a performer group approval if. you live by it and if you're quoting something that they're like yes. are you performing i mean you choir does it perform any other genres of music. except cost for your future constable well gus was a sense of the old music is religious would like you said even even in a broadway show the class will have negro spirituals you have the anthems if him arrangements you know c. have different bros even on the ok thank you thank you all very much for being with

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