The Deluxe Glee Club, a male chorus of twenty voices, under the direction of Mr. J. Franklin Brown, will make its first public appearance on Monday evening, April 30th at 8:30 in the auditorium of Jefferson High School.
This organization came into being during the earlier part of the year and has for its major purpose the presentation of Negro Spirituals and Melodies in the original manner.
The various popular arrangements have been discarded by this club and at the debut in the Jefferson High Auditorium next Friday night we shall hear a group of our best known and most beautiful songs rendered with the same rhythum and deep feeling that placed them on a pinnacle in the world of music and caused them to be condeidered as one of the outstanding contributions of our race.
No other work of art has undergone the humiliating changes imposed upon Negro Folk music. Various modern conceptions of jazz, wild tempos and soulless renditions by artists, incapable of portraying the intended sincerity of the Spirituals and melodies, tend to destroy the real purpose and mar the beauty and charm that so clearly bespeaks of a Race, its faith in God, and its love for nature.
These songs are expressive of the slave in the field, the patient christian who had and still has faith in deliverance, on the jolly, carefree stevedore, strumming his cares away.
The DeLuxe Glee Club is striving to preserve all of the original sincerity of purpose depicted in the Negro's most valuable contribution to the world.