LAMC Presents: Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers

Designated official cultural ambassadors to the world by Mayor Tom Bradley - they earned it. THE McNEIL SINGERS toured Africa, Asia, South America and Eastern Europe for the U.S. State Department - they've sung Spirituals in Cairo for the Moslem celebration of Ramadam; and in jerusalem for the memorial to the Olympic Games victims; and in Assisi, for the Sacred Music Festival of St. Francis. They brought music of faith and love to all the great capitols of Europe and to obscure villages in Bangladesh, Lebanon, Morocco, the Ivory Coast. When they sang at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the program was telecast world wide by satelite. In addition, they have performed before the American Choral Director's Association (1981) and as Choir in Residence before the Iowa Choral Director's Association (1982). Recently, they were heard in the NBC television show "Fame." Afro-American poets and composers Langston Hughes, William Grant Still, Hall Johnson and Margaret Bonds have written works for them. During the summer of 1982, they were the special guests of the government of Guatemala, and they will return to Europe for the eleventh time during the Fall of 1984.