You May Bury Me in the East
by John Wesley Work, III
4-Part - Sheet Music

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Choral SATB choir, solo Contralto voice or Mezzo-soprano Voice

SKU: PR.392031080

Arranged by John Wesley Work, III. Octavo. With Standard notation. Thorpe Music #392-03108. Published by Thorpe Music (PR.392031080).

UPC: 680160669097.

Thorpe includes a concise biography of John Wesley Work, III, third in a line of distinguished choir directors, musicians, and ethnomusicologists whose mission became the collection and preservation of slave songs and spirituals. Work, III became a leading expert on spirituals, while composing over 100 works of his own. Like his father before him, he became director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, a group founded in 1871 to eventually perform "slave songs" all around the world, and You May Bury Me in the East was written during his years as director.