On Sunday, September 16, 2001, Brookland Baptist Church Choir, the First Calvary Baptist Church Choir, and the South Carolina Philharmonic joined together to offer comfort and resolve after 9/11 in a very special ETV Classic.
Reverend Charles Jackson, Pastor of the Brookland Baptist Church, offered his welcome and the thoughts on America's suffering and grief accompanying the tragedy on 9/11. He spoke about the stress, depression and despair resulting from the attack on America.
Darla Moore observed that her business offices in New York suffered the loss of many business associates due to the attacks and she came to the event herself in need of comfort and peace. Governor Jim Hodges offered his thanks and words about the event and the impact of 9/11 on members of the South Carolina community.
After the Star Spangled Banner, the combined choirs sang Holy, Holy, Holy. Following, Conductor Nicholas Smith directed Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings. The choir then sang Someday and Soon Ah Will Be Done. Once more, Conductor Smith took to the podium and led Dvorak's Slavonic Dances.The choir joined the orchestra in Brahms How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place. Thereafter, we heard Singing Hallelujah, Beethoven Symphony Number Five - First Movement. The choirs closed with a Richard Smallwood medley including I Love the Lord, Center of My Joy, Holy, and Total Praise.
We hope that you enjoy this meaningful program.
Side Notes
- Remembering September 11 Terrorist Attack.
- Jim Hodges - term January 1999 - January 2003.
- Darla Moore - School of Business. USC.
- SCANA - Corporation was an American regulated electric and natural gas public utility. The company was based in Cayce, South Carolina, a suburb of Columbia, South Carolina. Following the Nukegate scandal, the company's stock fell and the company was in disrepair. In January 2019, SCANA was acquired by Dominion Energy.
- Nicholas Smith - Director of South Carolina Philharmonic
- Harold Brooker Director Brookland Baptist Choir
- Samuel O. Barber - The Samuel O. Barber collection measures 0.9 linear feet and dates from 1921 to 2010. Found within the collection are biographical materials, including two 1923 recital programs for performances at the First Presbyterian Church in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, a West Chester High School diploma, and a printed score of the WCHS alma mater, which Barber composed in 1926.
- Dvorak - Slavonic Dances (Czech: Slovanské tance) are a series of 16 orchestral pieces composed by Antonín Dvořák in 1878 and 1886 and published in two sets as Op. 46 and Op. 72 respectively. Originally written for piano four hands, the Slavonic Dances were inspired by Johannes Brahms's own Hungarian Dances and were orchestrated at the request of Dvořák's publisher soon after composition.
- Brahms How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place - It was the longest work Johannes Brahms ever wrote, and it was the first work to bring him international prominence. He named it A German Requiem to distinguish its texts and intent from the traditional Requiem Mass of the Roman Catholic liturgy. His was not a work for the dead. Rather, it was music to bring solace to the living, with words to help us all cope with the ideas of suffering and death. Brahms meant his work to have a universal message, and for that reason, he chose and coordinated quotations from the Old and New Testaments as well as from the Apocrypha. One of the composer’s few remarks concerning A German Requiem underlines his effort to give the work universal meaning: “I confess that I would gladly omit even the word German and simply put Human.”
- Beethoven Symphony Number Five - First Movement
Richard Smallwood - Remembering the Life of Double Alumnus, Gospel Music Pioneer Richard Smallwood. A founding member of the famed Howard Gospel Choir, Smallwood leaves a towering legacy both on campus and across the broader university community.
