Research Catalog

Title

Skyward my people rose / music of William Grant Still.

Author

Still, William Grant, 1895-1978.

Publication

Omaha, NE : Clarion ; Minneapolis, MN : Vocalessence, [2004], ℗2004.

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Additional Authors

• Warfield, William
• Williams, Yolanda
• Harris, Hilda, 1930-
• Brunelle, Philip, 1943-
• Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864.
• Leigh Morris Chorale, performer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf
• VocalEssence (Musical group), performer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Description

1 audio disc : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Series Statement

• Vocalessence Witness
• VocalEssence (Musical group). Witness.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

Works.

Subjects

• Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied
• Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices)
• Ballets
• Organ music
• Cantatas, Secular

Note

• The 1st work for soprano, chorus and orchestra; the 2nd for unacc. chorus (harmonized by Still, arr. by Dana Paul Pena); the 3rd for mezzo-soprano, narrator, 2 choruses and orchestra; the 4th for orchestra; the 5th-6th for organ.
• Originally released as Collins Classics 14542: Witness. Vol. 2 : William Grant Still.
• Compact disc.
• Program notes and texts in English ([10] p. : ports.) inserted in container.

Event (note)

• Recorded in Minneapolis, MN, the organ works at Plymouth Congregational Church, Oct. 11, 1995, the remainder at Orchestra Hall, Aug. 23-25, 1995.

Language (note)

• Vocal works sung in English.

Contents

Wailing woman (9:12) -- Swanee River (Old folks at home) / Stephen Foster (2:56) -- And they lynched him on a tree (18:04) -- Miss Sally\u0027s party (20:23) -- Reverie (3:56) -- Elegy (5:25).

LCCN

• 2005568443
• 040888090526
• 00040888090526

OCLC

• ocm55040695
• 55040695
• SCSB-5455016

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries