Where Have You Gone? - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project
| Song Title | Where Have You Gone? - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project (Search) |
| Composer(s): | David Baker |
| Composer Underrepresented Group | African-American; POC; Black (Search) |
| Author(s): | Mari Evans |
| Author Underrepresented Group | African-American; Woman; POC; Black (Search) |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Absent Love; Addressee: Former Lover; Confident; Crooked; Death of Love; Departing; Despair; Distant Love; Going; Hearts; Laughter; Leaving; Light; Lovers; Money; Nostalgia; Past; Past Love; Pockets; Remembering; Rent; Sadness; Smiles; Starless; Stars; Sun; Walks |
| First Line | Where have you gone (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1972 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | https://kentakepage.com/where-have-you-gone-by-mari-evans/ |
| Larger Work | Songs of the Night/Borderline (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Black Arts Movement (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Catalog Designation | No. 7 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Soprano |
| Commissioned By | Rita Sansone (Search) |
| Notes | From a twelve-song cycle "Songs of the Night," whose first and last movements, "Rêve" 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 voice | Soprano and string quartet (Search) |
| Sources Cited | African Diaspora Music Project, created by Dr. Louise Toppin (Search) |
| Contributor | Dr. Louise Toppin; GTM (Search) |