Borderline - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project

Song TitleBorderline - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project (Search)
Composer(s):David Baker
Composer Underrepresented GroupAfrican-American; POC; Black (Search)
Author(s):Langston Hughes
Author Underrepresented GroupAfrican-American; POC; Black (Search)
Keyword(s) & Features: Contrast: Life vs. Death; Contrast: Near vs. Far; Crying; Death; Difference; Distance; Dying; Existentialism; Life; Living; Nowhere; Tears; Wondering
First LineI used to wonder (Search)
Year of composition 1972 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://songofamerica.net/song/border-line/
Larger WorkSongs of the Night/Borderline (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsHarlem Renaissance (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Catalog DesignationNo. 6 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerSoprano
Commissioned ByRita Sansone (Search)
NotesFrom a twelve-song cycle "Songs of the Night," whose first and last movements, "RĂªve" and "Evening Song," are for solo piano. Eight songs were recorded by the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor String Quartet on the album "Calvary" as "Borderline." This recording excluded the two aforementioned piano movements as well as "Borderline" and "Where Have You Gone?" Information from a list compiled by Indiana Public Media: https://indianapublicmedia.org/static/pdf/baker-compositions.pdf (Search)
Other instrumentation and voiceSoprano and string quartet (Search)
Sources CitedAfrican Diaspora Music Project, created by Dr. Louise Toppin (Search)
ContributorDr. Louise Toppin; GTM (Search)
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