Well, it’s complicated. “Great Day” is a spiritual, meaning that it falls into the category of true Folk music, a genre that starts out with oral traditions and only later involves writing the words down. By the time a true Folk Song is committed to paper it almost always has multiple versions. And why do I keep using the word “true”? Because there are many songs written “in the style of” a folk song that aren’t truly so since they have a known, single author. In the case of this version of the piece (which my own choir, the Cherry ... Read more

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