Texas Southern University's Department of Music performs at the Meet in Beijing Festival

Texas Southern University’s Heritage of Zion Singers, a group comprised primarily of the university’s opera workshop and university choir students, recently returned from an exciting series of concerts of Negro Spirituals, Black Gospel Music and American Jazz Standards in Beijing, China. The young singers, collaborating with their instructors, Tenor, Jason Oby and Soprano, Summer Haiyan Song produced this concert featuring the best of African American Music Culture. The university singing groups make frequent appearances throughout the US, performing multiple concerts yearly. The Department of Music’s concerts are celebrated for their diversity of styles. 

The concerts also featured dancer Hindolo Bongay, one of TSU’s talented student pianists who played music in the Ragtime style. The Heritage of Zion Singers, brainchild of tenor, Jason Oby represents an effort to revive the art of diverse historical African American Musical Heritage in all of its diversity.