 Good evening. We're here in the Shiloh Baptist Church here in Washington for a very, very special program. In this series, Devoted Young Artists, we've tried to provide a showcase not only for outstanding talent, but for American music as well. We've heard country and western from Merle Haggard and jazz from Dizzy Gillespie, Chick Korea, Stan Getz, and tonight, with this season's host, Lientine Price, we'll explore one of the richest veins of our national musical heritage, spiritual and gospel music. Spirituals resulted from a merging of the music black Americans brought from Africa songs and as affirmations of faith in God and a better life. In their moving simplicity and rich melody, they're really a fountain of human emotion. Gospel music, on the other hand, could be described as a spiritual accented by popular music forms such as jazz and the blues. Gospel music as some perform Schubert or Italian sing Verdi and rightly so because America is very proud of this part of our heritage. She's going to open this evening's program with the exuberant spiritual, his name so sweet, Lientine.