I Want to Be Free, Part Two - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project
Song Title | I Want to Be Free, Part Two - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project (Search) |
Composer(s): | T. J. (Thomas Jefferson) Anderson Jr. |
Composer Underrepresented Group | African-American; POC; Black (Search) |
Author(s): | Anita Turpeau Anderson |
Author Underrepresented Group | African-American; Woman; POC; Black (Search) |
Keyword(s) & Features: | African-American; America; Bigotry; Birthrights; Children; Churches; Civil Rights; Closing; Colored; Colors; Doors; Downtown; Faces; Food; Free; Freedom; Friends; Houses; Hungry; Inequality; Jim Crow Laws; Keys; Liberty; Limitations; Living; Longing; Lynchings; Metaphor: Opportunity as Door; Opportunities; Oppression; Passing; Prejudice; Presidents; Proud; Race; Racism; Riding; Seats; Time; Tired; Towns; Uncomfortable; United States of America; Wanting; White |
First Line | I want to be free, (Search) |
Average Duration | 4:45 (Search) |
Year of composition | 1999 (Search) Circa |
Larger Work | Words My Mother Taught Me (Search) |
Original Language | English (Search) |
Score Source | https://www.worldcat.org/title/words-my-mother-taught-me-a-song-cycle-for-soprano-and-piano/oclc/1120130615&referer=brief_results |
Audio Source | http://www.tjandersonmusic.com/audio/mp3/WORDS_MY_MOTHER.mp3 |
Catalog Designation | No. 4 (Search) |
Voice part suggested by composer | Soprano |
Dedicated To | Pamela L. Kelly (Search) |
Premiered By | Pamela L. Kelly (Search) |
Notes | Premiered by Pamela L. Kelly, soprano, San Diego, July 2, 2000. Poet was composer's mother (Search) |
Recommended Printed Source | N.Y.: American Composers' Edition, Inc. (Search) |
Sources Cited | African Diaspora Music Project, created by Dr. Louise Toppin (Search) |
Contributor | Dr. Louise Toppin; GTM (Search) |