Uzee Brown Society of Choraliers at Big Bethel AME Church

For over sixty years, Usherette Board #2 of Big

Bethel A. M. E. Church has led the “ushering in” of Holy/Passion Week by

presenting its annual Palm Sunday Concert. 

This year is no exception as it presents the multi-talented Uzee Brown Society of Choraliers.

 

The Uzee Brown Society of Choraliers is ranked

as a top performing group and one to be immolated. This group is admired both

nationally and internationally.  The Uzee

Brown Society of Choraliers will be presented in concert on Palm Sunday, April 13,

2014, at Big Bethel A.M. E. Church, 220 Auburn Avenue, at 5:00P.M.

 

The Uzee Brown Society of Choraliers was founded by Uzee Brown, Jr., who is an educator, composer/arranger, performer and chair of

the Morehouse College Department of Music. He has enjoyed a diverse career in music that

has taken him to more than seventeen countries, including Italy, Germany,

France, Switzerland, Poland, Russia, Luxembourg, Spain, five countries of

Africa and the Caribbean. 

 

Uzee Brown Society of Choraliers began in the fall, 2009, assembled by Uzee Brown, Jr. for the primary

purpose of completing a multi-media recording project of Tikvah (a Hebrew word

meaning Hope), based on the life and writings of a surviving Jewish holocaust victim,

Philip Markowicz, with music by award-winning American composer,

Burton Beerman.

 

Included among his many performances in opera

and oratorio are world premier roles of Alltalk

Parson in the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s premier of Scott

Joplin’s Treemonisha, the title role of King Solomon in

Emory University Theater’s premier production, the Alliance Theater’s showcase

production of Jubilee and the performance of Mr. Letter law in the 2000 premier of Curtis Bryant’s

operatic work, Zabette. 

 

Big Bethel continues to play an important role

in transforming the lives of others and enhancing its community. Big Bethel

constructed Bethel Towers, low income housing apartments, and Big Bethel

Village, an independent living facility for aging but active adults;

established Bethel Trinity House, a transitional housing and rehabilitation

program for men from alcohol and drug addiction; and cooperated with the

Integral Group to build “Renaissance Walk” on Auburn Avenue, a community of

upscale condominiums and retail establishments. 

The Big Bethel church ministry is led by Rev. Dr. John Foster, Senior

Pastor.

 

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