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American Spiritual Ensemble helps preserve black history and culture through song
Interview with Dr. Everett McCorvey, founder and music director of the American Spiritual Ensemble, a group dedicated to the preservation and performance of the Negro spiritual.

Atlanta Opera to mount high-tech 'Porgy and Bess'
The Atlanta Opera's new techno-savvy production breathes new life into the classic tale.

Choir's crusade to save spirituals
Everett McCorvey founded the American Spiritual Ensemble in 1995 because he feared that the Negro spiritual was in danger of becoming extinct.

American Spiritual Ensemble
Preserving the life of the oldest form of American music is what the American Spiritual Ensemble does as it reminds the world of the beauty of the spiritual in a Saturday concert at Niswonger Performing Arts Center.

Making a Spirituals Connection
America's musical heritage starts with Negro Spirituals, says Dr. Everett McCorvey, founder and director of the internationally acclaimed American Spiritual Ensemble.

ASE REVIEW: The American Spiritual Ensemble: A true Christmas present
The American Spiritual Ensemble recently wowed the audience when they performed at The Sarasota Opera House.

'A Christmas Carol,' the (Operatic) Sequel
Allan Kozinn reviews the New York premiere of Thomas Pasatieri's "God Bless Us Everyone," a co-production of UK Opera Theatre and the Dicapo Opera.

ASE REVIEW: An Explosion of Joy Rocks the Sarasota Opera House
The concert by the American Spiritual Ensemble threatened to demolish the very building whose restoration was being celebrated, so explosively joyful was the music they presented.

WEG Dreams the Impossible Dream With Opening Ceremony
Diana DeRosa provides a birds eyeview of the Opening Ceremonies with photos and descriptions of some of the incredible acts.

Opening ceremonies dazzle with Kentucky people, talent
For its opening ceremonies, the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games put on a wide-ranging show, but there was no mistaking where the event took place.

World Equestrian Games open with great fanfare
Muhammad Ali, Wynonna Judd and John Calipari helped the World Equestrian Games get underway amid great fanfare at the Kentucky Horse Park.

Slideshow: World Equestrian Games Opening Ceremony
Photos from the opening ceremony of the World Equestrian Games in Lexington, Kentucky.

Opening ceremony dazzles at FEI World Equestrian Games
It was a ceremony filled with glitter and glitz, highlighting some of the best of the Bluegrass and American culture.

'Celebration of horse' to get Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games out of gate
The 21/2-hour ceremony promises to highlight the best of the Bluegrass and the varied equine disciplines America has to offer.

Performers put finishing touches on WEG opening ceremonies
As the Kentucky Horse Park prepares to host the first World Equestrian Games in America, performers put the final touches on the opening ceremonies that promise to be both global and local.

Muhammad Ali to Take Center Stage at 2010 WEG Opening Ceremonies
The world-renowned boxing legend will join a cast of nearly 1500 people and almost 200 horses for an opening ceremonies celebration that will pay tribute to the FEI World Equestrian Games' American debut with scenes of the prairie, Broadway, the Wild West, and the Deep South.

Alltech, UK strike a chord in Haiti
Haitian school children will be chosen by graduate students in the University of Kentucky's voice program to form a choir, with the goal of bringing the group to Kentucky to perform in opening ceremonies of the Alltech-FEI World Equestrian Games.

Haitian reality checks
Rich Copley writes about his recent experience in Haiti and the conditions in which he found the impoverished country.

Alltech hopes to help Haiti by bringing in jobs
Alltech and president Pearse Lyons plan to build homes, schools and businesses in the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation.

UK singers bring music to Haiti
Eric Brown and fellow UK voice student Manuel Castillo were in Haiti last month to explore a unique way to help in the desperately impoverished, earthquake-ravaged country.

2010 Alltech Fortnight Festival Welcomes World with Unprecedented Entertainment Celebration
The American Spiritual Ensemble will be among several acclaimed acts peforming in the statewide entertainment festival.

Alltech, UK Opera join forces to help Haiti
Everett McCorvey and his graduate students plan to create Haitian Harmony, a music training program for children in Ouanaminthe, Haiti.

Equestrian Vaulting Gains Fans in the Northeast
American vaulting to be featured at the World Equestrian Games in Lexington, Kentucky, from from Sept. 25 to Oct. 10, 2010.

The American Spiritual Ensemble at ACDA in Memphis
On Wednesday night the American Spiritual Ensemble led by Dr. Everett McCorvey sang one of the greatest concerts I have ever heard.

Senior Day Special Again...and Other Notes
Everett McCorvey performs a stirring rendition of 'My Old Kentucky Home' at UK Senior Day.

ASE Chosen to Perform Opening Concert
The American Spiritual Ensemble will entertain choral music professionals from 11 states Wednesday evening when it performs the opening concert at the annual meeting of the Southern Division of the American Choral Directors Association in Memphis.

Black History is a Spiritual Experience
During the Stephenson Memorial Concert that celebrated Black History Month, the American Spiritual Ensemble graced Berea College with its bold and powerful music to commemorate the history and understanding of the Negro spiritual.

McCorvey an Entrepreneur and Musician
Everett McCorvey isn't a businessman; he's a musician and a teacher. He has started a lot of companies, but not the kind you usually associate with entrepreneurs.