Ideas53:59A Life-giving Chord: The power of gospel music
A century after the founding of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music, the sounds of Black gospel — which from its very beginnings has been steeped in the idea of community — echo at last, from its classrooms. Documentary producer Alisa Siegel takes us into that room where Black gospel is helping to transform the way that students learn, create, and perform music.
It’s a Wednesday evening at the University of Toronto, and the sounds of silence collide with a few hushed whispers in the corridors of the glass-and-concrete building housing the Faculty