Autorentext

Edryn J. Coleman is a choral music educator and conductor, with many years of experience teaching music at elementary, middle-school, high-school, and college level. He has presented sessions for numerous professional organizations and school systems, including appearances at national ACDA conferences on topics such as accessibility in choral music. He holds a strong personal commitment to diversity and equality in music education. He currently teaches chamber choir, concert choir, and piano at Oakland Mills High School in Columbia, MD, and serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore Country (UMBC) and as the conductor for the Prince George's County Choral Society.

Klappentext

for SATB and piano
This inspiring piece opens with repeated powerful statements of the opening line of the text 'Lift every voice and sing' by writer and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson. The rising opening vocal figures develop in strength until a central section in which the loud, rolling sea is musically represented with a change to a propulsive compound metre. The piece culminates in a strong, victorious ending.