Concert offers ‘healing’ with Black spirituals - Portland Press Herald

“After the Black Lives Matter protests last year, Emily Isaacson, artistic director of Classical Uprising, and internationally known countertenor Reginald Mobley wanted to find a music program that would promote healing and “create a safe space for dialogue,” she said.

Isaacson and Mobley decided that a re-imagined “Amazing Grace: The American Spiritual,” a multimedia concert that traces the history of African-American spirituals from Pre-Emancipation to the present day, would create that space.”

Photo: Reginald Mobley, countertenor (photography credit: Liz Linder)