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My transcendental journey


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Andrew Egbuchiem full profile / Voice (countertenor) and Piano / 2 musicians


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Prayer - Leslie Adams
Nobody knows the trouble I see. – H.T Burleigh
I’ve been in the storm so long.- H.T Burleigh

Go down Moses - H.T Burleigh
Lord I’ll go - Lord I’ll go – Jacquline Hairston
Oluwa L’oluso agutun mi (The Lord is my Shepherd) – Fred Onovwerosuoke

Intermission
Four 17th and 18th Century songs
Pieta Signore – Alessandro Stradella
Come raggio di sol – Antonio Caldara
Qual mia colpa….. Se delitto el’adorarti – Alessandro Scarlatti
Se tu’m’ami – Gionanni Battista Pergolesi (1710 -1736)

Dove sei from Rodelinda – G.F. Handel
Pena tiranna from Amadigi – G.F. Handel
Up the dreadful steep ascending from Jephthah – G. F. Handel


Historical context

My Transcendental Journeys.” This journey takes you through some experiences, which can be deeply connected and life changing.
My first “Transcendental Journey” begins with one of the most amazing songs I have had the opportunity of performing, “Prayer" by H. Leslie Adams from his song cycle Nightsongs: Six Afro-American Songs. A poem written by Langston Hughes questioning one’s purpose and complexities of being stuck in between worlds. I have always loved spirituals arranged by H.T. Burleigh and my journey explores three of these spirituals exploring the feelings of pain and coming through with victory but with a call and that call was answered in Hairston’s Lord I’ll go and ending this first journey with one of my favorite composers of all time Fred Onovwerusoke (Nigerian Ghanaian American).
My love for Baroque music has been unwavering over the years and I seek always to connect everything around me to it. My entire second Transcendental Journey is dedicated to the music drawn from this period featuring Stradella, Caldara, Scarlatti, Pergolesi/Parisotti and the last three numbers from Handel. This journey explores a plead for mercy, pain, internal struggles, the complexities of love and commitment.


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