Deep River (2014)
for SSAA Choir
Text: Traditional
Duration: 5 minutes
This arrangement of Deep River offers a peaceful reflection on faith and hope, with slow, expressive piano writing that serves as both partner and backdrop to the voices. Written for the Wheaton College Women’s Chorale, the setting honors the profound spiritual and historical roots of the Negro spiritual. In the tradition of Burleigh, Dett, and Price, it stands as both a remembrance and a reverent offering in the ongoing lineage of Black musical expression and liberation.