Deep Like the Rivers

Season	2007-2008
Performance Date	February 17, 2008
Performance Year	2008
Performance Time	4:00PM
Additional Performances	2/24
Location	2/17 Ordway Center for the Performing Arts; 2/24 Hopkins High School Auditorium
Performance Title	WITNESS: The Duke Ellington Effect
Composer	William Banfield
Country	USA
Year Composed	2008
Timing	4min 0sec
Performers	VocalEssence Chorus & Ensemble Singers; Dennis Spears, soloist; Sanford Moore, pianist; Tom Keith, sound effects
Text Translation	I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were Young! I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy bottom turn all golden in the sunset. I’ve known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. —Langston Hughes
Categories	WITNESS Repertoire

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