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Music for Eastertide on Sounds Choral

This week's Sounds Choral (4/5 at 2 pm) surveys a selection of hymns, spirituals, cantatas and other works written for Easter.

Host Vinroy D. Brown, Jr. shares music for the Easter season composed by William Billings, Bach, Margaret Bonds and others.

This episode will be rebroadcast Tuesday (4/7) at 3 pm.

Vinroy D. Brown, Jr. is a conductor, musicologist, and educator with academic and professional experience in choral conducting, sacred music, and music education. He currently serves as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sacred Music at Westminster Choir College, where he conducts the Westminster Jubilee Singers, teaches in the Baccalaureate Honors Program, directs the Westminster Vocal Institute, and is the Founder and Curator of the university-wide Celebration of Black Music. He previously served as Lecturer of Music in the College of Communication and Fine Arts at Loyola Marymount University, where he developed and taught the institution’s inaugural course in music and social justice. In addition to his academic work, Brown serves as Minister of Creative Worship, Music & Arts at the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City. He is also Artistic Director and Conductor of Capital Singers of Trenton.