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Inspiration for these arrangements came from a lifetime of exposure to the Negro Spiritual. Over decades of hearing and singing this music, I struggled to reconcile the profundity of the art form with the simplicity of the arrangements available. It was a dissonance that I first noticed as a kid, when I joined my first professional chorus. The Lucy Kinchen Chorale, based out of Oakland CA, championed the spiritual in concert, and their arrangements were incredibly lush and powerful. But any time I would hear Spirituals elsewhere as solo pieces, they sounded comparatively square and simple. That struck me as strange. Even as a teenager, I realized that the terrible circumstances endured by our enslaved ancestors demand a greater sense of reverence for the art form that grew through them. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd so, I started creating my own arrangements of the songs that I like best, based on the soundscapes that I was hearing in my head. 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