Good Friday Performance Also Honors Plymouth UCC Centennial

Nearly all 317-seats in the GM Theater at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History were filled with patrons on Good Friday, April 19, to hear Plymouth United Church of Christ's Award-winning Renaissance Choir. The choir performed Theodore DuBois’ Seven Last Words of Christ at the museum in Detroit in honor of Plymouth UCC’s 100th anniversary this year, under leadership of Rev. Dr. Nicholas Hood, III.

The Renaissance Choir was accompanied by several accomplished Detroit musicians including pianist, singer and composer Alvin Waddles and Jonathan Kirkland, who resides in New York, and is an American singer and actor recently in the role of ‘George Washington’ in the Chicago production of Hamilton. The sacred cantata was directed by Plymouth UCC’s Minister of Music Lamar Willis and narrated by local actor Augustus Williamson. Featured soloists included Brenda Jett (soprano); Jonathan Kirkland (baritone); James Moore (tenor); and Vickie Winn (soprano).