Word: kuumbas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
FIRST, THE visual scene opened one's eyes, then the voices opened one's ears, which gave easy access to one's soul. Dressed in an array of African prints the Kuumba singers rocked and swayed, clapped and sang until Memorial Church seemed to move with their rhythm. With shining faces and full voices the choir dramatically presented its theme, "The Light of Unity." The Memorial Church altar, usually an inconspicuous backdrop, complemented the singers' radiant stage presence; it almost seemed to draw out their contagious rhythm and spirit...
...Kuumba Singers perform under auspices of the Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Cultural Center. Memorial Church...
...which appears occasionally with women's college choruses to perform a standard mixed chorus repertoire), the Collegium Musicum, which will perform Beethoven's Ninth with the Boston Symphony this year, the University church choir, the Radcliffe Choral Society, a newly formed women's chorus, the Krokodiloes and the Kuumba singers, a group of black vocalists specializing in gospel music and spirituals...
...Leonard Bernstein's sister. At 8:30 p.m. tomorrow night, Harvard will get a taste of Lyon's professionalism when he sits down at the piano in Adams House dining room and begins to play. Backing him will be a 20-piece orchestra and two members of the Kuumba Singers called the Gatson Sisters. The House will be packed, Lyon predicts--the result of an extensive publicity blitz that ranged from posters in the Pizza Pad to professionally-engineered-in-New-York commercials on WBCN...
WHRR Black CAST, Atro, PBH, Cave, Kuumba Singers...