Regret, Repent, Rejoice / The Sacred Nine Project

$17.99
Label
Centaur Records
Release Date
March 5, 2021
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      C. Leonard Raybon
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      March 05, 2021
    • UPC
      044747381527
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CRC3815
    • LABEL
      Centaur Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Manna All Around (arr. L.C. Raybon for choir)

      Composer: William Moore

      Ensemble: Sacred Nine Project

      Conductor: Leonard C. Raybon

    2. The Social Band (arr. L.C. Raybon for choir)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Sacred Nine Project

      Conductor: Leonard C. Raybon

    3. Rock of Ages (arr. L.C. Raybon for choir)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Sacred Nine Project

      Conductor: Leonard C. Raybon

    4. Say, Will You, or No? (arr. L.C. Raybon for choir)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Sacred Nine Project

      Conductor: Leonard C. Raybon

    5. The Romish Lady (arr. L.C. Raybon for choir)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Sacred Nine Project

      Conductor: Leonard C. Raybon

    6. The Clear Title (arr. L.C. Raybon for choir)

      Composer: William Walker

      Ensemble: Sacred Nine Project

      Conductor: Leonard C. Raybon

    7. The Fiery Fiends (arr. L.C. Raybon for choir)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Sacred Nine Project

      Conductor: Leonard C. Raybon

    8. The Conversion of Captain Kidd (arr. L.C. Raybon for choir)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Sacred Nine Project

      Conductor: Leonard C. Raybon

    9. Tedious and Tasteless (arr. L.C. Raybon for choir)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Sacred Nine Project

      Conductor: Leonard C. Raybon

    10. The Female Convict (arr. L.C. Raybon for choir)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Sacred Nine Project

      Conductor: Leonard C. Raybon

    11. Gay As Sixteen (arr. L.C. Raybon for choir)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Sacred Nine Project

      Conductor: Leonard C. Raybon

    12. Amazing Grace (arr. L.C. Raybon for choir)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Sacred Nine Project

      Conductor: Leonard C. Raybon

    13. The French Broad (arr. L.C. Raybon for choir)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Sacred Nine Project

      Conductor: Leonard C. Raybon

    14. The Other Side of Jordan (arr. L.C. Raybon for choir)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Sacred Nine Project

      Conductor: Leonard C. Raybon


This is an album of classic works collected in the classic book, "The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion," compiled by William Walker in 1835. This is a truly amazing compendium of these classic pieces, in beautiful arrangements. Curtis Leonard Raybon writes of this project: "The Sacred Nine Project presents problematic works from American music or poetic history and asks the audience to consider what we can learn from them today. It all started when I, trying to avoid copyright issues, sought out an original source for my HOLY MANNA arrangement. I found a facsimile of Southern Harmony, and was delighted to leaf through it's virtual pages. There I saw the usual and welcomed suspects like "Amazing Grace" and "Wondrous Love." However, I was alarmed to find many tunes that not-so-subtly advanced the shame-based theology of the time. In each Sacred Nine Project so far, I revive works that have fallen out of use. If these disturbing musical and poetic pieces did not survive the natural selection, then good! Why revive them now? Well, the takeaway is often thus: the initial audience reaction may be to be self-congratulatory: Look how far we've come! But when we really stop to think, we see that the more austere and primitive texts we sing are dead and buried, but the sentiments they represent are alive and well. Religion is still shaming people ("RRR" and the upcoming "Conversion"). Well-meaning white people from centuries past are complicit in today's insidious racial unrest ("Cora L, Imposter," and the upcoming "Saints Bound." The Sacred Nine Project opens old wounds to help heal fresh ones."