... Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 The Composers Creed At a recent concert of contemporary music, my wife handed me a note which read as follows: "This is certainly excellent music to think of something else by." My first reaction was to the humorous side of the message...

...Sarah Collins Fernandis Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 7 Your Little Deed of Uplift I Your little deed of uplift May set some fallen soul Upon a safer pathway Toward a higher goal. 2 Your little creed lived simply, In league with all divine, May, in the lives of many...

... gospel version of social involvemene4 and human rights, 15 and that, still, hardly any of the songs in their hymnal assert these creeds crucial to the survival of their Black membership within "Americanity." Much more of the hymnody has a polarity toward the opposite evangelical realm and falls under...

... decision. After all, Harry T. Burleigh was one of ASCAP's charter members. Today, as always, all of ASCAP's members have been treated ac­ cording to their ability and prestige, regardless of their race or creed. ASCAP has made it possible for both its colored and white members to gain a financial return...

...? Create alarms of battle arrayed against their foes? But our music tells who we are, where we come from , what we feel, what our philosophy of life is, who we feel close to or alienated from, and who we want to be close to. Our songs, more than creeds or doctrinal statements, reveal what our people...

...." Rosicrucian Fellowship Magazine, July 1936, 297-99. "Can Music Make a Career?" Negro Digest, December 1948, 78-84. "The Composer Needs Determination and Faith." Etude 67 (January 1949): 7-8. "The Composer's Creed." Music of the West 17, no. 2 (October 1961): 13 15. "A Composer's Viewpoint." In William Grant...

... of surrendering all to Jesus is 'Tm Happy with Jesus Alone." About this piece Jones writes: "I would know nothing but Jesus. No name but His. No master but Him. No law but His word. No creed but Jesus. I [have] to be 'Happy with Jesus alone.' All else [is] trash to me." 8 While the worldly are "the enemies...

..., his obvious dedication appearing to increase his energy as he rippled up and down a series of graduated platforms. In a mesmerizing synchronization of tap, tone, and rhythmic percussion, dancer Briggs summed for us the warm spiritual significance of the evening, Duke's lifelong creed: I am...

... the warm spiritual significance of the evening, Duke's life-long creed: I am not concerned with what it costs. I want the best everything possible. I want the best musicians, the best singers and coaches,-amateur or professional-and I want them to give the best they have. I want all the help I can get...

... made us walk a path made by slavery Though bravery We lost our unity our source of power and we lost All race pride in our Holocaust Now it's my creed I'm from a stranger breed My ancestors indeed had to bleed whipped 'till they were freed And now I look back and say wow how did we allow Physical...

... in a personal note. "I have no creed. I know only that we are given tremendous love of life and body."B It is doubtful that Still himself began practicing a religious eclecticism prior to 1930. That year, while living in Harlem and having previously been estranged from the church, he seemed to have been...

... creed worshippers; they hated their Lord and the authority of His Name. At a bank, it is the name signed on a check that gives it value or worthlessness. The devil knew that was what Christ died for-a name. Therefore they denied His Power by neglecting and even denying His name. I had to prove...

... to let thee try on that crown. When I first gave myself to the Lord to be sanctified, (this was in 1894 at Selma) I had no idea at all of taking up holiness as a fad, or an ism, or a creed, or a slogan of a ..cult I just wanted to be personally holy. I just wished to make my own calling and election sure...

..., color and creed. Another constructive thing that colored people can do to help the situation in general is to write letters to radio sponsors, recording companies, managers, edi­ tors, and so on, expressing their likes, dislikes and hopes for the future. We must, however temper our remarks and ask...

... Sunday," 144, 149-50 CoD1D1odores, 28 5 Comte, Auguste, 51 18 Confidence-Man, 191 Cooke,SaD1,203,205,284 Cooper-Lewter, Nicholas, 13, 14, 16 Cortazar, Julio, 196 Cotton Club, 148 Council, Floyd, 108 Country Blues, 103 Cox, Ida, 116, 117 Creed, Linda, 286 Crossroads, 256, 257, 258 Crouch,Andrae, 292...

... March 1970, Still-Arvey Papers. 103. Coleridge A. Braithwaite to WGS, 4 May 1950, Still-Arvey Papers. 104. William Grant Still, The Composer's Creed," Music of the West, October 1961, 13. 105. William Grant Still, The Art of Musical Creation," Rosicrucian Fellowship Magazine 28 (July 1936): 297. 106...

... of the Delfonicsof the Philly Sound at Sigma Sound Studio in Philadelphia. The poignant music and lyrics of Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff, Thom Bell and Linda Creed, Joseph Jefferson, Bruce Hawes and Yvette Davis, Norman Harris, and Allen Felder surfaced in the late sixties and early seventies with force and potency...

..., And bodies are molded like clay; Souls that are sealed by His Spirit Have entered the heavenlies to stay. Sinners who once have been careless Have wakened to a sense of their need; Pentecost surely is spreading, Regardless of doctrine or creed. The glory to Jesus who loved me, And glory to Jesus who came...