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The Dawn's Awake!
Mark Lehnowsky
This is a challenging SSAATTBB setting of Otto Leland Bohanan's Harlem
Renaissance poem of the same name. My musical adolescence was spent singing Read More
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This is a challenging SSAATTBB setting of Otto Leland Bohanan's Harlem
Renaissance poem of the same name. My musical adolescence was spent singing
music of the African and African American traditions with Essence of
Joy. This piece, written for them in
2015, was inspired by those experiences and integrates spirituals that had
special significance to me during my time in EOJ. There are quotations from Over My Head; Bye
and Bye; My Lord, What a Morning; Great Day; and Oh, Freedom. During the climax of the piece, these
spirituals combine into a moving tapestry of "half-forgotten
songs." As with most of my music,
there is a numerological Easter Egg, a hidden message in the structure of the
piece itself, for those music theorists who like deep diving into pieces they
are singing.
My Lord, what a morning...