While touring with Disney’s “The Lion King”, Russell Joel Brown performed on renowned stages around the globe including a stint on Broadway, but on Monday, he’ll realize a lifelong dream.
“For 61 years, I’ve been waiting to go to Carnegie Hall, and it’s finally happening,” said Brown, who will perform Sir Karl Jenkins’ “Stabat Mater” with about 42 members of Aiken’s St. John’s Methodist Church Chancel Choir at New York’s famed concert call. They will join other choirs from the U.S., Canada, Switzerland and Germany to form a mass choir of about 250 people for the performance.
St. John’s had performed the work two years ago on Palm Sunday, according to Matt Caine, St. John’s director of traditional music…