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Sprawls, Charles

He is a bass-baritone singer who has been a member of several ensembles during the course of his career. These ensembles include the Atlanta Singers, the Robert Shaw Chamber Singers, who he performed and recorded with during the mid-1990s and during the 2000s he has made appearances with the Berkshire Bach Society.

In 1998 he took part in The Inferno of Dante: A Study by Patrick Soluri and in 1999 he sang with the choir of St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York City. In 2005 he appeared in the production An Evening of Gilbert & Sullivan with the Hudson Chamber Opera in Hudson. New York and in 2007 he appeared as a member of the St. Thomas Choir in a performance with the Sinfonia, New York’s debut concert and in a performance of Handel’s Israel in Egypt with the Berkshire Bach Society.

Appearing on several recordings, he can be heard on Jester Hairston: Spirituals with the Belmont Chorale, Magnifical and Mighty by The Britten Choir, The Fountain by Clive Mansell, The Frogs/Evening Primrose by Stephen Sondheim, A Robert Shaw Christmas: Angels on High and Songs of Angels: Christmas Hymns & Carols by the Robert Shaw Chamber Singers and Wondrous Story by the Choir of St. Ignatius, Loyola.

Robert Shaw Chamber Singers recordings
Adeste Fidelis (John Francis Wade)
Telarc 80461 (CD: A Rober Shaw Christmas: Angels On High)
Arranger – Alice Parker

Angels We Have Heard on High (Traditional French/James Chadwick/Edward Shippen Barnes )
Telarc 80377 (CD: Songs of Angels: Christmas Hymns & Carols)
Conductor – Robert Shaw

He sings here in a performance of “Versa est in Luctum” by Tomas Luis de Victoria…

Sources:

  1. http://www.hudsonchamberopera.org/productions.htm
  2. http://www.atlantasingers.org/history.html
  3. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A04E5DA1630F935A15750C0A96F958260
  4. http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/the-frogs-evening-primrose
  5. http://www.gemsny.org/images/Town_Hall_with_Cover_and_Program_Final_.pdf
  6. http://music.barnesandnoble.com/The-Fountain/Clint-Mansell/e/075597990126
  7. http://www.soluri.com/music/inferno_works.htm
  8. http://www.berkshirefinearts.com/?page=article&article_id=291&catID=8
  9. http://www.bhsinging.info/date/2004/20041120bkbach.html
  10. http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Charles%20Sprawls:1927721878
  11. http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=41:54248~T3