Jocelyn Scott, a member of The Heritage Gospel Chorale of Pittsburgh, sings during rehearsal for an upcoming concert honoring the late gospel composer, musician and publisher, Charles Henry Pace, at Bethany Baptist Church on Monday, March 6, 2023, in Pittsburgh. The free concert will be held at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Pittsburgh on March 25. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski) 
Herbert V.R.P. Jones, the founder and director of The Heritage Gospel Chorale of Pittsburgh leads rehearsal at Bethany Baptist Church for an upcoming concert honoring the late gospel composer, musician and publisher, Charles Henry Pace, on Monday, March 6, 2023, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski) 
Members of The Heritage Gospel Chorale of Pittsburgh, a multi-ethnic and multi-generational choral ensemble specializing in the performance of African American sacred music, gospel music and spirituals, pray after rehearsal at Bethany Baptist Church in Pittsburgh, on Monday, March 6, 2023. The choir will be one of two performers at an upcoming concert honoring the late gospel composer, musician and publisher, Charles Henry Pace, who’s being newly recognized as one of the early pioneers of African American gospel composition and publishing. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski) 
A family portrait of Frankie and Charles Pace with their children, Frances and Frank Jr., is displayed at the University of Pittsburgh, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, in Pittsburgh. After cleaning and organizing 14 crates that made up the Pace archive, a music historian discovered that the late gospel composer Charles Henry Pace was an early pioneer of gospel music whose independently owned publishing company helped elevate and expand the genre. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski) 
Michelle Middleton, a member of The Heritage Gospel Chorale of Pittsburgh, prays after rehearsal on Monday, March 6, 2023, at Bethany Baptist Church in Pittsburgh. The chorale ensemble will be one of two performers at an upcoming concert honoring the work of late gospel composer, musician and publisher, Charles Henry Pace. The free concert will be held at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Pittsburgh on March 25, as part of an effort to recognize Pace as an early pioneer of gospel music and one of the early and only publishers of Black artists in the niche genre. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski) 
Christopher Lynch, music historian and project coordinator with the Center for American Music at the University of Pittsburgh, adjusts a set of photos of gospel musician, composer and publisher Charles Henry Pace and his family, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, at the University of Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh. When organizing the Pace archives, which are housed and owned by the university, Lynch discovered the composer was an early pioneer of gospel music and one of the early and only publishers of Black artists in the niche genre. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski) 
One of the only surviving books of gospel spirituals composed and published by Charles Henry Pace, part of his archive together with photo negatives of sheet music and printing places, is seen at the University of Pittsburgh on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, in Pittsburgh. A project led by the university is highlighting Pace as one of the pioneers of traditional African American gospel with his publishing company being one of the nation’s first to print and disseminate Black gospel music. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski) 
Christopher Lynch, music historian with the Center for American Music at the University of Pittsburgh, holds a piece of sheet music written by Charles Henry Pace, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, at the University of Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh. Lynch and the university are coordinating a project to recognize the pivotal role Pace played in gospel music as an early pioneer of the genre. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski) 
Christopher Lynch, music historian and project coordinator with the Center for American Music at the University of Pittsburgh, holds a printing plate that gospel composer and publisher Charles Henry Pace used to print sheet music, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, at the University of Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh. The plate is part of a larger archive owned and housed by the university. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Pioneer of gospel music rediscovered in Pittsburgh archives
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Mayor WRITE IN candidate Paul Noel Fiorino has an album of music that has Gospel roots in the way that the truth comes through the songs of faith and praises. Music plays a major role in the Old and New Testaments and has reached out with this discovery. Music must return to all Schools. Vote.