...?" This question shouldn't be settled at random. Neither should a passage be assigned to some instrument merely because it can be played easily upon that instru­ ment. The desired mood should be considered first, and that mood should govern not only the choice of instruments for that passage but also the choice...

... Stars in de el - e - ments, _ shine, shine, _ shine. _ $& r J ) ~ ~ ~ ~,CJ I Fl t, J Stars in de el - e - ments, _ shine, shine, _ shine. _ ...

... in de elements, Shine, shine, shine. Stars in de elements, Shine, I want to shine, To shine like a star Oat's away in Glory; Good Lord, let me shine. Appendix of Negro Songs 277 Stars in de Elements CHORUS ~&eJ Ir Stars in de el - e - ments, _ shine, Spiritual P[] ~1 shine, _ shine. _ J ) ~ ~~ '& -Stars...

... of faith and pre- c)us mo- ments rri ~ a ll. do. lo\'e . las t? 1 r· To the h a r- ves t fi e ld m ake haste, Lin- ge r not a-noth-er da An-swer now the Mas- ter's call, What- so- -e'er is right He'll pay. J F Words: F. M. Hamilton Music: F. M. Hamilton MISSION AND DISCIPLESHIP ...

...) extended into the final quarter of the century. These musicians, who knew one another personally, were consid­ ered by such renowned composers as Howard Hanson to be Ameri­ can composers of high historical significance.1 That Hanson's senti­ ments were shared by other esteemed American musicians...

... were enjoyed only by wealthy people. A King or a Queen might patronize a composer, and command gala performances of anything that suited the royal fancy. Through the years, more and more poeple have become associated with the production, manage­ ment and enjoyment of music, until today it may rightly...

... that creativity goes downward when darker creators are Answer to a Questionnaire 205 involved. Mr. Shapiro must be totally unacquainted with the achieve­ ments of some of us on serious levels if he really believes what he has said. Furthermore, I don't concede that it is necessary or advis­ able for white artists...

... States, and the first to do the same in the Deep South, for being the first to write a symphony which was performed, the first to have an opera produced by a major American company, and first to conduct a White radio orchestra in New York. I would like to say here that none of these accomplish­ ments...

... the overall harmonic treatment of a move­ ment, yet the composer doesn't have to limit himself to that particu­ lar harmonic idiom. As his work progresses, new ideas will develop that will fit harmoniously into the general pattern. If one works at a rate of speed which allows him to understand his own...

... a qualifying state­ ment. In advocating the study and use of all available materials, all idioms, all traditions and all forms of musical expression, I am de­ cidedly not endorsing the creation of musical hodge-podges. It would be wrong to construct compositions in which a conscious effort is made to employ...

... in a spirit of mutual good-will. Dr. Burleigh went further than that. He believed firmly that music is a powerful instru­ ment for international understanding. So when, on a concert tour of Fifty Years of Progress in Music 179 Europe, he sang for King Edward VII on two occasions, he felt that he had made...

... that such things are written; it's more amazing that some intelligent people fail to question them. Actually, experi­ ments with sound should be so labelled, and not confused with music. Such experiments have no place in the concert hall; they only have a place in the composer's private laboratory. And it would...

... this with his interest in the abstract ele­ ments of his art form. It was the human need that impelled me to write such a composition as "In Memoriam: The Colored Soldiers Politics in Music 149 Who Died for Democracy/' rather than any political consideration, for whatever my political views or however I vote...

... fellowship rather than by the place one holds in a structured hierarchy. Clearly, without communitas there would be no true convocation, no feast of the Lord. The communitas of convocation is comprised of a series of tempuses, mo- ments having their own potency and value based on the way in which...

..., was attempting to stay in step with the civil rights move- ment. One major step was to bring in the largest number of African- American freshmen in the school's history. Excluding the kitchen crew, the black students, all highly recruited athletes, then num- bered about twenty-seven out of nearly two thousand...

... Clinton, George, 36 clothing, as way to make a state- ment, 34, 37 Cocks, Jay, 31 Cold Rush Brothers, 13 Cone, James, 52, 53, 55-56 Cox, Ida, 51 Crawford, Randy, 631 641 66 Cray, Robert, 18-19 "Cress Theory of Color- Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy 44 Crouch, Andre, 8 Daly, Mary, 71-76 passim...

... would yet compare with the European, and Americans believed them. (I have heard a radio commentator of European birth make this state­ ment fairly recently, giving it not as his own opinion but as an established fact.) And the awe with which most Americans regarded music composed by Europeans...

... ment world far more than you can make in serious music sometimes with a very small amount of preparation and a great amount of personal magnetism. One reason for this is that the Amer­ ican public patronizes popular music more than serious music. An­ other reason is that a Negro in this field conforms...

... are. Interpreters The colored instrumentalist is having to fight a similar battle. De­ spite a growing number of excellent performers on various instru­ ments, we have as yet no famous concert artist in that field. We do find, however, that a few broad symphony conductors in America are A Symphony of Dark Voices...

... Arkansas Boyhood 251 achieved by doing whatever I had been sent on earth to do in this case, music to the very best of my ability, so that the accomplish­ ment would in itself count for something. The middle twenties had to arrive before I had committed myself to Negro music, however. This followed periods...