Uzee Brown, Jr.

Zungo (Nigeria)

Operatic baritone, choral conductor and composer Uzee Brown, Jr. heads the Music Department at Atlanta’s Morehouse College, and he is a published authority on the contributions of African American composers of the twentieth century. His arrangement of the plaintive Nigerian folk song Zungo expresses the longing for one’s homeland.

--February 10, 2008 (UNF Chorale & UNF Chamber Singers)