Chronology
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1922 |
First meeting of the Society of the Preservation of Spirituals (SPS) at 21 King St, home of Josephine Pinckney. |
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1923 |
First public performance by the SPS on East Battery to benefit St. Philips Church |
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1925 |
Porgy, novel by SPS member Dubose Heyward is published. |
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1929 |
First concert tour in northern cities: Boston, New York, Wilmington |
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1934 |
Porgy & Bess composer, George Gershwin, summers in Charleston to work on opera. |
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1935 |
SPS performs in White House for President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 20th. |
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1936 |
SPS invests in device for making "electronic transcriptions" (recordings) onto aluminum discs. |
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1936 |
Katherine J Hutson is recorded singing solos in her home. |
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1936 |
Nationwide NBC broadcast of SPS singing in Academy of Music on April 15, 1936. |
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1936-39 |
African-American congregations on Johns Island, on the Santee River and on Cromwell Alley, downtown Charleston, SC, recorded. |
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1937 |
John Lomax, Curator of American Folksong Archive meets with SPS President Louis Parker |
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and requests donation of aluminum discs to the Library of Congress |
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1952 |
Series I, LP recording of 4/15/52 concert at Dock St Theatre for American Society |
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of Mammalogists becomes first release of SPS. |
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1952 |
Series II, LP recording of concerts between 1952-54 released |
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1960 |
Series III, LP released |
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1980 |
March 28 Concert, Footlight Players Workshop, not released. |
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1982 |
Donation of 45 aluminum discs of spirituals recorded in the Charleston area from 1936-39 to |
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Archive of Folk Song at the Library of Congress |
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1983 |
Come En Go Wid Me, March 28 concert, Footlight Players Workshop, released |
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1987 |
Sinnuh Wah Yuh Doin' Down Dehe, April 13 concert, Footlight Players Wk, released |
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1995 |
Gala concert in the Dock Street Theater on March 23, not released |
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1999 |
Negro Spiritual procalimed to be official music of SC by Gov. Hodges |
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2004 |
Spiritual SocietyField Recordings, 1936-39, CD with 19 spirituals performed by African- |
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American congregaions and six by the founding generation of the SPS, released. |
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2004 |
Spiritual Society Concerts, 1936-95, a double CD with 56 spirituals released. |
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2007 |
Gullah Lyrics to Carolina Low Country Spirituals, lyrics to 94 spirituals published. |
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2009 |
Five Carolina Low Country Spirituals arranged for SATB by Gary Bachlund, published |
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