Now That He Is Safely Dead - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project
| Song Title | Now That He Is Safely Dead - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project (Search) |
| Composer(s): | David Baker |
| Composer Underrepresented Group | African-American; POC; Black (Search) |
| Author(s): | Jr., Carl Wendell Hines |
| Author Underrepresented Group | African-American; POC; Black (Search) |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Building; Causes; Challenging; Children; Civil Rights; Conscience; Convenient; Dead; Death; Dedication; Dreams; Dying; Easy; Fashioning; Glory; Great; Heroes; History; Hosanna; Images; Knowing; Leaders; Life; Living; Memory; Men; Monuments; Names; People; Praising; Remembering; Rising; Safe; Singing; Teaching; World; X, Malcolm |
| First Line | Now that he is safely dead, (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1972 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | https://afamwilsonnc.com/2017/01/16/now-that-he-is-safely-dead/ |
| Larger Work | Songs of the Night/Borderline (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Catalog Designation | No. 10 (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 Poem was written in 1965 about the death of Malcolm X, but it has also been associated with the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. (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) |