Negro Art Singers Program No. 28

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

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Presented by the Works Progress Administration and the Federal Music Project, William Lawrence directs the Negro Art Singers in a program of spirituals.

If You Love God Serve Him (arranged by William C. Elkins)
King Emanuel
There's Going to Be a Landslide
(composer - Lily Strickland, singer - William C. Elkins, pianist - William Lawrence)
In That Great Gettin' Up Morning

The announcer says a few words about the composer of the last song, "an old slave who could neither write nor read, but dreamed one night of the general judgment and related the dream to his friends the next morning in the form of a song."

The program begins and ends with "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny."

Recorded between 1935 and 1938.


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


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Municipal archives id: LT4768

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