I grew up listing to Fisk recordings on LP and as a youth I was singing some of their arrangements with the Chicago Children's Choir. This choir is still thriving today. It was started by the Rev. Christopher Moore as a way to bring black and white kids (all kids from all backgrounds really) together with the goal of musical excellence. This was a time of crisis in the civil rights movement with urban riots in Chicago and all over the US. The gospel and spiritual music we made was not watered down and though we sang with Lyric Opera and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and performed all kinds of material from classical to folk, the black religious music we did always brought the house down and the black kids in the choir knew how to make it real. We all felt that that we were singing for our lives.