Choral Choir (SATB divisi) - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1095125 Composed by Mark Lehnowsky. A Cappella,Contest,Festival,Historic,Patriotic,Spiritual. Octavo. 11 pages. Mark Lehnowsky Music #699184. Published by Mark Lehnowsky Music (A0.1095125). This is a challenging SSAATTBB setting of Otto Leland Bohanan's Harlem Renaissance poem of the same name. My musical adolescence was spent singing music of the African and African American traditions with Essence of Joy. This piece, written for them in 2015, was inspired by those experiences and integrates spirituals that had special significance to me during my time in EOJ. There are quotations from Over My Head; Bye and Bye; My Lord, What a Morning; Great Day; and Oh, Freedom. During the climax of the piece, these spirituals combine into a moving tapestry of half-forgotten songs. As with most of my music, there is a numerological Easter Egg, a hidden message in the structure of the piece itself, for those music theorists who like deep diving into pieces they are singing. My Lord, what a morning...
