A Spiritual for Freedom (Oliver Barton)

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Editor: Oliver Barton (added 2003-04-15).   Score information: A4, 24 pages, 748 kbytes   Copyright: Personal

Choral Score:

Editor: Oliver Barton (added 2003-04-15).   Score information: A4, 24 pages, 748 kbytes   Copyright: Personal

Organ Score:

Editor: Oliver Barton (added 2003-04-15).   Score information: A4, 24 pages, 748 kbytes   Copyright: Personal

General Information

Title: A Spiritual for Freedom
Composer: Oliver Barton

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Cantatas

Language: English
Instruments: Organ
Published:

Description:

The Spiritual was written for a concert commemorating Amnesty International’s 40th anniversary. It uses the simplicity and heavy work rhythms of spirituals to deliver a powerful plea for freedom. All the spiritual melodies are new, the words based on fragments of existing spirituals. At the heart of the piece, a reader reads a passage from the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, 1845, while the choir and soloists keen. The atmosphere at the end is one of ecstatic and optimistic exhaustion after a long ride of powerful emotion.