If There Be Sorrow - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project

Song TitleIf There Be Sorrow - generously provided by African Diaspora Music Project (Search)
Composer(s):David Baker
Composer Underrepresented GroupAfrican-American; POC; Black (Search)
Author(s):Mari Evans
Author Underrepresented GroupAfrican-American; Woman; POC; Black (Search)
Keyword(s) & Features: Adding; Brevity of Life; Carpe Diem; Dreams; Love; Restraining; Sorrow; Undone; Withholding
First LineIf There Be Sorrow (Search)
Average Duration1:30 (Search)
Year of composition 1986 (Search)
Link to English Text Onlinehttps://songofamerica.net/song/if-there-be-sorrow/
Larger WorkThrough This Vale of Tears: In Memoriam Martin Luther King, Jr. (Search)
Author's associated movements or -isms or GroupsBlack Arts Movement (Search)
Original LanguageEnglish (Search)
Audio Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuN1wlsYOKY
Catalog DesignationNo. 2 (Search)
Voice part suggested by composerTenor
Premiered ByWilliam Brown (Search)
Commissioned ByWilliam Brown (Search)
Recommended Printed Sourcehttps://www.halleonard.com/product/41318/through-this-vale-of-tears (Search)
Other instrumentation and voiceTenor, string quartet, and piano (Search)
Sources CitedAfrican Diaspora Music Project, created by Dr. Louise Toppin (Search)
ContributorDr. Louise Toppin; GTM (Search)
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