{"id":9431,"date":"2023-11-29T13:07:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T18:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=9431"},"modified":"2023-11-29T13:07:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T18:07:10","slug":"a-moving-evening-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2023\/11\/29\/a-moving-evening-of-music\/","title":{"rendered":"A moving evening of music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-medium is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/performance-1-scaled-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/performance-1-300x128.jpg\" alt=\"Performers in Sheryl Crow Hall.\" class=\"wp-image-9432\" style=\"width:340px;height:auto\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My wife, Suzanne, and I were guests of Professor Megan Murph, director of the Budds Center for American Music Studies, for a performance of \u201cMusic of the Underground Railroad:&nbsp;An Evening of Spirituals, Freedom Songs and Gospel Music.\u201d&nbsp;The event was sponsored by the Budds Center, Missouri Folk Arts Program and Missouri Humanities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-medium is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/Boyd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/Boyd-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Brandon A. Boyd, associate professor and director of choral activities.\" class=\"wp-image-9433\" style=\"width:202px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/Boyd-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/Boyd.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Brandon A. Boyd, associate professor and director of choral activities<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The performances held at Sheryl Crow Hall in the Sinquefield Music Center featured the MU Sankofa Chorale and the Columbia College Unified Voices Gospel Choir, conducted by Professor Brandon A. Boyd and Mr. Ronnie Wilson, a doctoral student at Mizzou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The evening\u2019s performances ranged from spirituals written by Missouri composers Kyle Kelley and Anita Watkins-Stevens to the powerful \u201cA Change is Gonna Come\u201d by Sam Cooke.&nbsp;Music students also provided historical vignettes of the period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suzanne and I were so moved by the songs and the talent of our students and faculty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife, Suzanne, and I were guests of Professor Megan Murph, the Director of the Budds Center for American Music Studies, for a performance of \u201cMusic of the Underground Railroad:\u00a0An Evening of Spirituals, Freedom Songs and Gospel Music.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}