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What Dreams We Have: The Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar is a Overton's latest album on Lexicon Classics. With pianist Casey Robards, the album features 21 songs by 8 different composers which are centered around the world premiere of a new song cycle written by Anthony J. Patterson.​ With a combination of veteran composers Hailstork, Adams and Price, new composers like Jeremiah Evans and Walker Jermaine Jackson, and rediscovered gems of Lena McLin and Irene Britton Smith, we embarked on an inspirational journey through Dunbar’s lyric and poetic voice.
Crossover Records is excited to announce the release of our debut Broadway album with the incredible Kenneth Overton, A Bright Tomorrow., This project parks a return to his musical theatre roots and features some of his favorites from the Black Broadway cannon. Featuring Tony Award Nominee, Phillip Boykin and star of Broadway’s Paradise Square, Aisha Jackson.
The Harlem Chamber Players perform music by Adolphus Hailstork. Kenneth is the featured soloist on "Nobody Know" – a concert aria based on text by Herbert Martin. It was commissioned by The Harlem Chamber Players to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the importation of the first black slaves to America.
Released in April of 2022, Angela Rice's Thy Will Be Done, An Easter Oratorio is a beautiful work for choir, soloists and orchestra produced by Dr. Everett McCorvey, director of the University of Kentucky Opera Theatre and National Chorale.
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2020 GRAMMY Award Winner for Best Choral Performance, Richard Danielpour's dramatic oratorio The Passion of Yeshua is an intensely personal telling of the final hours of Christ on Earth. It incorporates texts from the Hebrew Scriptures and the Christian gospels inspiring beautiful music, stressing the need for human compassion and forgiveness.
Kenneth Overton’s Debut CD
Been In De Storm So Long: Songs My Fathers Taught Me
This album represents an outpouring of love and tradition years in the making. Kenneth has been mentored by some of the greatest names in spirituals, and this recording demonstrates not only Kenneth’s sensitive artistry but that of the many men who came before him.
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The American Spiritual Ensemble Presents:
The Spirit of the Holidays.
A collection of Holiday Spirituals.