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Negro Art Singers Program No. 28

This print, "Spirituals" by Lillian Richter, was commissioned by the Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project in the late 1930s.

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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

WNYC archives id: 150497
Municipal archives id: LT4768

This is a machine-generated transcript. Text is unformatted and may contain errors.
The Works Progress Administration presents a program by the federal music project under the direction of Dr Nicholai Sokolov today the negro art singers are presenting under the direction of William Lawrence a program of negro folk songs and solar. They offer as their initial number a hymn of admonition if you allow God serve Him This is one of the original Negro spiritual arrange for double quartet by William Elkins the bass soloist of the negro out singers the music expresses the emotions of a wayward person who finds his way to salvation if you love God serve him. The. The. The. The. The. The. The. The. The you know. The. How. The. The. The. On the. How. The. The out the the. Next we hear a hymn of praise and titled King Emmanuelle in this song Jesus is referred to as King Emmanuelle Who do you call the king Emmanuelle sings the ecstatic individual and the answer is I call Mark Jesus King Emmanuelle this song is a traditional spiritual popular in many churches of the South who do you call the king Emmanuelle. Out. Home of the. Cold. The. Out out. The. More than three million men and women have left the relief rolls then now earn their living on W.P.A. job mayors another local official sponsor all W.P.A. construction work they understand that this work must be of a kind that can be done by relief workers in their own communities. The quality of the work is proof that local officials have found good work to do and that the workers have done it well. We hear next a negro sermon there is gonna be a landslide a composition by Lily Strickland the American composer who conceived that song in the positional idiom of the Negro spirituals it will be sung by William C. elk and bass with William Lawrence at the piano yes it is Rhino be a landslide. Why don't you love my on the. Oh girl the. In Every time I looked at this congregation the low sure the. Left in the. Bed look the. Old Southern you. All love. Telling me. Why the real life version of the. Old. Lotus. The good Never. Had the love the you're. Not sure. All the. Homework a. Was. Was. What was to. That was. It was. A A. A. Oh OK. I think I. Was. The was. Thank you Mr Wilkins. One of the most interesting of the Negro spirituals is the one known as the hymn of judgment that great morning every mark of a paraphrase of a portion of the book of revelation according to the one who discovered this song the following details of interest it was composed by an old slave who could neither right nor read but who dreamed one night of the general judgement and related the dream to his friend the next morning in the form of a song here it is that great good enough mornin. Just. Going to tell you but coming up again. That the better have. A look out the day. A. Week just for your bible. For your Bible. The last. Day that the day. That day. That prayer. Read. The. Law My people. Say. A. Day. Like today. But. You see them. Here That comment on. Hockey like. You see the world. Her. Thousand. A. Day. A. Thirty a day. This program presented by the federal music project of the Works Progress Administration has been performed by musicians taken off relief rolls and put to work by W.P.A. to maintain their musical skills as well as to provide education and entertainment for the general public. We have presented today the negro art thing and under the direction of Mr William Lauder.

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