Two Spirituals (High Voice)

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Two Spirituals (High Voice)

Two well-known spirituals, “Deep River” and “Steal Away,” embrace in a free arrangement of the tunes.

Click to listen to excerpts, performed by Shari Feldman, soprano and Irina Stene, piano at the 2015 Source Song Festival.

 

Description

2 Spirituals (1995)

  • Duration: 7′
  • Text and tune: African-American Spirituals: “Deep River” and “Steal Away.”
  • Commissioned by Karen Clift
  • Premiere—1995, by Karen Clift and John Churchwell, Minneapolis, MN
  • Voice range:


Text

Deep river, my home is over Jordan.
Deep river, Lord,
I want to cross over into camp ground.

Oh, don’t you want to go to that gospel feast?
That promised land, where all is peace?

Deep river. . . .

Steal away, steal away, steal away to Jesus.
Steal away, steal away home,
I ain’t got long to stay here.

My Lord calls me, He calls me by the thunder;
The trumpet sounds within-a my soul.
I ain’t got long to stay here.

My Lord calls me, He calls me by the lightning.
The trumpet sounds within-a my soul.
I ain’t got long to stay here.

Steal away. . . .