Boston Globe: Fisk Jubilee Singers Bring Gospel Tradition to Boston

Donna McElroy spoke to the Boston Globe about her duty to carry on the Fisk Jubilee Singers' legacy of African American spirituals, and the two-plus year effort at Berklee to bring the storied ensemble back to Symphony Hall for its first performance in Boston since the 1980s.

February 26, 2016

Boston Globe reporter James Sullivan looks back—way back—to the Fisk Jubilee Singers’ legendary first performance in Boston in 1872 at the World’s Peace Jubilee, and speaks with Fisk musical director Paul T. Kwami and Berklee voice professor and former Jubilee Singer Donna McElroy about the group’s triumphant return to Boston's Symphony Hall.

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