Music: Sun Jan 15

Martin Luther King Sunday is commemorated with music associated with African-American musical traditions. At CUUC. The Choir is at hand with a setting of a traditional Spiritual, as well as Amy Bernon’s inspirational “I Am the River. Music connected to African-descended cultures in arrangements for solo piano by the British-born Samuel Coleridge-Taylor are featured during the Prelude. May Aufderheide was perhaps the leading female composer of rags, and her “Dusty” Rag is the morning’s Offertory. Read on for programming details.

Prelude:
Twenty-Four Negro Melodies, Op. 59           

            9. The Angels Changed My Name (American Spiritual)

            3. Take Nabandji (South East African)

            8. The Bamboula (West Indian)

                                    arranged by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Anthem:
I Am The River  

Amy F. Bernon

Offertory:
Dusty

                                                May Aufderheide

Anthem:

Keep Your Lamps    

American Spiritual, arr. by Victor C. Johnson