Columbia Records Announces “Standout” The New Spirit-Filled Live Album From Tye Tribbett

Columbia Records will release StandOUT, the much anticipated new album from the contemporary gospel singer, songwriter, and performer Tye Tribbett and his gospel choir and musical ensemble, G.A. (Greater Anointing), on Tuesday, May 6. StandOUT is the first new full-length album from Tye Tribbett and G.A. since the groundbreaking gospel artist’s Victory Live! entered the Billboard Top Gospel Albums chart at #1, shortly following its release in May 2006. A DVD edition of Victory Live! has sold more than 40,000 copies.

A crossover success featuring the #1 Gospel Radio single, “Victory,” Victory Live! hit #64 on the Billboard Top 200 best-selling albums chart while earning Tribbett two Stellar Awards and three Grammy nominations -- Best Gospel Performance (“Victory”); Best Gospel Song (“Victory”); and Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album.

Recorded live at Rock Church International in Virginia Beach on August 17, 2007, StandOUT premieres a group of new musical testimonies to the Power of the Word and the Glory of the Holy Spirit, each written or co-written by Tye Tribbett: “Stand Out,” “Hold On,” “Look Up,” “I Need You,” “Prodigal Son,” “All Hail The King,” “Hallelujah,” “Let Us Worship,” “So Amazing,” “He Has Made Me Glad,” “I Made It Through,” “Chasing After You,” and “Well Done.” As an added blessing for Tribbett fans, StandOUT includes the hidden bonus track, the single “Good In The Hood.”

Tye Tribbett, a co-host, along with Kirk Franklin and Mary Mary, at the 22nd Annual Stellar Awards ceremony, and G.A. have performed with a variety of pop and gospel superstars ranging from Justin Timberlake and Faith Hill to Mary J. Blige, Donnie McClurkin, Kim Burrell and Israel Houghton.

Tye Tribbett sponsored his second annual youth conference earlier this year in the Poconos, with more than 1,000 attending. He will be performing at this year’s Essence Festival in New Orleans.

Born in Camden, New Jersey, Tye Tribbett is the son of two preachers…both his mother and father wore the cloth…and Tye himself, a loving husband and father of two daughters, has responded to the Call, going on to minister through his music and the Living Word. Growing up surrounded by hymns and gospel music, Tye learned to make music at an early age. “I’ve been playing all my life,” he explains. “Before I knew my ABC’s, I knew the ABC’s on the keys.” As a teenager, he honed his skills as a keyboardist by accompanying such regional notables as Steve Middleton, the late James Viner and the Tri-State Mass Choir of the Edwin Hawkins Music & Arts Seminar.

In 1996, Tye founded a gospel choir, Greater Anointing (G.A.), consisting of a group of family and friends whose hearts were set simply on praising the Creator through the gift of great music. Tye knew from the beginning they’d tapped into something real and glorious. “That first rehearsal blew my mind,” he says. “The musicianship, the quality of the voices and the spirit of the choir, the character of everybody…I knew that this was it. I knew that this is what I was supposed to be doing.”

 

New York Philharmonic To Perform Annual, Free Memorial Day Concert At The Cathedral Church Of Saint John The Divine

David Robertson will lead the New York Philharmonic in the 17th annual, free Memorial Day Concert at The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, Amsterdam Avenue at 112th Street, Monday, May 26, 2008, at 8:00 p.m. The program will comprise Schubert’s Symphony in B minor, Unfinished, and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4, Italian.

David Robertson is in his third season as music director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra while continuing as principal guest conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, a post to which he was appointed in 2005. Highlights of his 2007–08 guest engagements included a residency in January with the Los Angeles Philharmonic entitled Concrete Frequency; two concerts with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, featuring the New York premiere of John Adams’s Doctor Atomic Symphony, a Carnegie Hall–St. Louis Symphony Orchestra–BBC co-commission.

Additional guest appearances in the U.S. this season include the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and The Metropolitan Opera; internationally, he appears as a guest conductor with Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra, Swedish Radio Orchestra, and Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. In June Mr. Robertson will serve as music director of the 2008 Ojai Music Festival.

Prior to his St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Orchestra appointments, Mr. Robertson held several posts abroad. He was the first artist ever to simultaneously serve as both music director of the Orchestre National de Lyon and artistic director of that city’s Auditorium, responsibilities he held from 2000–04. From 1992 to 2000 he was music director of the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris, of which Pierre Boulez is honorary president, and from 1985 to 1987, he was resident conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.

 

Think On These Things They Gambled And Lost

The following article was written some time ago for the members of the Youth Department of my Church, it is entitled, “They Gambled and Lost.”

Ben was sick, frustrated and using between $25 and $100 a day to support his habit. After trying all rehabilitation programs and without receiving the help he needed, Ben found deliverance in the power of the Lord Jesus Christ who wants to help all those who are in need.

Why not take your sins, your habits, your hang-ups to Jesus Christ and ask Him to set you free by His love and power? If He sets you free, you will really be FREE.

Ted was a college student, a whiz kid. He went from pot to hard stuff, to LSD. He was later charged with murder while under the influence of drugs. He didn’t mean to do it.

Hazel was a 19 year old, with a lot of problems. Her main problem was drugs. After being released from a rehabilitation center she was found dead from a drug overdose.

Are these exceptional cases? Hardly, hundreds or even thousands of similar cases can be cited. It all boils down to the fact that drug use is a risk nobody has to take. Why gamble when the risks are so great.

“What can I do for kicks?” Is the big question of generation Xers as they are popularly called. Perhaps you, like many others feel you need to get, “turned on.” The various methods to which people resort, to get “turned on” invariably comes to an abrupt and disappointing end which sometimes end in the loss of life.

This is true, not only to drugs, but includes the whole spectrum of diversions used by people of all ages. Everything must come to an end some day. What then? Think on These Things!

 

Wordsworth McAndrew Dies At 72 Death Of A Giant

A man who for the past five decades dedicated his life to creating, collecting, preserving, and celebrating Guyanese folk life, died Friday April 25, 2008 at seventy-two at the East Orange General Hospital, East Orange, New Jersey.

Wordsworth McAndrew was one of Guyana's leading folklorists, poets, and creative artists.

He was born in 1936 to Winslow Alexander McAndrew and Ivy McAndrew. His father was a schoolteacher, a musician, and catechist, who taught in rural Anglican schools. McAndrew attended ‘Teacher' Marshall Kindergarten School, Christ Church Primary School and Queen’s College.

Through his work as a broadcaster during the 1960s and 1970s he helped the Guyanese recognize and feel proud of their mythological and folkloric heritage.

His study and celebration of Guyanese language and culture is an inspiration.

He used all media available to explain and promote Guyanese cultural characteristics.

A Broadcaster, Folklorist and poet, Wordsworth has been one of the most influential folklorists in Guyanese history and has been an unyieldingadvocate for the collection, preservation and celebration of Guyanese folk life. He started the movement.