Hymn-Sing: A Morning of Sacred Song with Dr. James Abbington and Dr. Uzee Brown Jr.

Join us for “Hymn-Sing: A Morning of Sacred Song” with Dr. James Abbington and Dr. Uzee Brown Jr. in Wightman Chapel.

• Saturday, February 24, 2024
  9:30 AM–1:00 PM
  Wightman Chapel

GIA Publications, Inc. invites all ages, denominations, and levels of experience to join us as we celebrate the rich tradition of African American sacred song! We’ll begin with a hymn sing led by Dr. Abbington, featuring the One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism hymnal and music from GIA’s African American Church Music Series. Then, Dr. Brown will lead a vocal masterclass featuring his Spirituals and Inspirational Songs collection.

Don’t miss this unique performance by two incredible educators, editors, and musicians!

Register at www.giamusic.com/aacms

or call 1-800-442-1358

$25.00 per person (includes a hymnal and music packet)

$10.00 per person for students (show ID at check-in — includes hymnal and music packet)

Walk-ins: $30.00 (does not guarantee a hymnal and music packet)

James Abbington, currently Associate Professor of Church Music and Worship at Candler School of Theology, Emory University in Atlanta, GA, was previously a professor of music in the Department of Fine Arts at Morgan State University. Prior to his tenure in Baltimore, he was Associate Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Shaw University in Raleigh, NC (1998–2003). He is also the Executive Editor of the African American Church Music Series published by GIA Publications, Inc. of Chicago and has served as co-director of the annual Hampton University Ministers’ and Musicians’ Conference since 2000.

He is the author of Let Mt. Zion Rejoice! Music in the African American Church (Judson Press), Readings in African American Church Music and Worship (GIA Publications, Inc.), co-author of Waiting to Go! African American Church Worship Resources from Advent through Pentecost (GIA), and Going to Wait! African American Church Worship Resources between Pentecost and Advent (GIA); he edited Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker’s Spirits that Dwell in Deep Woods: The Prayer and Praise Hymns of the Black Religious Experience (GIA), is an associate editor of the best-selling African American Heritage Hymnal (GIA) and compiled and edited New Wine in Old Wineskins: A Contemporary Congregational Song Supplement (GIA).

Dr. Uzee Brown Jr. is a professor emeritus in the Music Department at Morehouse College. A native of Cowpens, South Carolina, Dr. Brown has also served as chair of the Department of Music at Morehouse and director of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church Choir. Having enjoyed a very diverse career in music, the combination of his professional activities as singer/performer, composer/arranger, educator and choir director has taken him to more than twenty countries, including Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland, Poland, Russia, Luxembourg, Spain, six countries of Africa and the Caribbean. When he was director of the Ebenezer Choir, he led the choir in concert tours of Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy. Dr. Brown is editor of the Morehouse College Choral Series (GIA) and composer/arranger of Spirituals and Inspirational Songs (GIA).