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...stage, but it’s pretty close. You could boil Bobby McFerrin down to trivia: collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma, Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock. Or cite numbers: a Billboard number one single, ten grammys, twenty million copies and seemingly infinite praise or genres: jazz, pop, classical, gospel. But even the sum total of these elements could not hope to sum up the anticipation or the result that was his performance at Sanders Theater...
...McFerrin appeared at a luncheon at the Institute of Politics and, as part of the OFA’s Learning from Performers series, worked with several campus arts groups that culminated in a performance on stage at Sanders. Working alone and in conjunction with groups from campus classical, dance, gospel and a cappella communities, McFerrin sung, vocalized and charmed his way into the hearts of his audience...
...into their individual songs, reaping the benefits of tutelage from a man whose musical interests most closely matched with their own.) Despite the obvious benefits gained by each group, McFerrin’s connection was most fully realized with the Brother’s and Sisters of Kuumba gospel singers. He disappeared for a time and later emerged wearing one of the brother’s stole, and appeared most moved by their music, with its unadulterated emotion and animated force...
...main feature of the nearly two-hour long service was the sermon delivered by the Rev. Theodore Maynard ’00, the director of youth ministries at the Charles Street A.M.E. Church in Boston. Maynard based his message on the gospel story of a young girl whom Jesus raises from the dead...
Kuumba soloists Maleka I. Donaldson ’02, Melanie L. Forbes ’02 and Jason Hines of Harvard Law School brought the congregation to its feet. Not to be outsung, the Phyllis Davis Singers of Charles Street Church delivered gospel performances that left audience members waving their arms...