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Detroit Remembers:
Richard Smallwood
Visionary Music Director
Bill Moss Jr.
featuring
Artist Director
Rev. Kimberly Whitsett
Band Director
Ernest Tolbert
Principal and
featured Artist
Alvin Waddles
Vocal Director and
Master Clinician
Pam English
“Richard Smallwood meant so much to us; he gave us so many songs that got us through our services because we needed them.”
~Bill Moss Jr.
Visionary & Music Director
“Smallwood’s signature synthesis of the Black gospel tradition and a host of musical influences, especially classical traditions, made his pen one of the most distinct in musical history.”
~Braxton Shelley
George Washington Williams Professor
of Divinity & Music,
Yale University
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