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Music samplings from Frances C. Roberts and Company

Portrait of a People

Lord, How Come Me Here?
Spiritual

In the Beginning God
Duke Ellington

The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Langston Hughes

Deep River
arr. H.T. Burleigh

Runagate, Runagate
Rober Hayden

O Freedom
arr. Odessa

When Malindy Sings
Paul Laurence Dunbar

His Name So Sweet
arr. Hall Johnson

On Ma Journey
arr. Edward Boater

Honor, Honor
arr. Hall Johnson

Old Lem
Sterling A. Brown

A City Called Heaven
arr. Hall Johnson

Mother to Son
Langston Hughes

I, Too
Margaret Bonds

We Wear the Mask
Paul Laurence Dunbar

A Real Slow Drag (from Treemonisha)
Scott Joplin

Sloace
Scott Joplin

Maple Leaf Rag
Scott Joplin

Lady in Red
(from the choreopoem “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf”)

A Short Note to My Very Critical and Well-Beloved Friends and Comrades
June Jordan

Scandalize My Name
arr. Sylvia Olden Lee

You Can Tell The World
Margaret Bonds

Ride On, Jesus!
arr. Nathaniel Dett

Requiem, Lacrimosa, 2013, Verdi