[Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor]
Published
on Apr 16, 2012 by consecratadeo
Deep
River, Op. 59, No. 10 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912)
I
discovered this piece when looking for piano music by
African-American composers. Named after the poet Samuel Coleridge,
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was an Anglo-African violinist, conductor,
and arranger. This spiritual is from Twenty-four Negro Melodies,
arranged for solo piano in 1904. He said of the collection, "What
Brahms has done for the Hungarian folk music, Dvorak for the
Bohemian, and Grieg for the Norwegian, I have tried to do for these
Negro Melodies."
Deep river, my home is over Jordan;
Deep river, Lord, I want to cross over into campground.
Oh
don't you want to go to that gospel feast,
that Promised Land
where all is peace?
Deep river, Lord, I want to cross over into
campground.
[Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912) is profiled at AfriClassical.com, which features a
comprehensive Works List and a Bibliography by Prof. Dominique-René
de Lerma, http://www.CasaMusicaledeLerma.com]
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