A brilliant, pulsating piano introduction announces the dawn and invites the voices to join with escalating calls to "Awake, my soul!" As the pulsing continues, the vocal counterpoint gives way to the

The river flows steady and calm in this beautiful arrangement of the traditional spiritual edited by Dan Forrest. It is impossible to ignore the underlying intensity which rises and falls as peace, love and

An interesting spiritual written after the Civil War and after the slaves were freed. However, as the struggles of African Americans continued, it has become a prominent song in the march for equality, even