Cheryl Van Ornam plays the Midmer-Losh organ in Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City (August 2023).
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" is a hymn with lyrics by James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) and set to music by his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954). Written from the context of African Americans in the late 19th century, the hymn is a prayer of thanksgiving to God as well as a prayer for faithfulness and freedom, with imagery that evokes the biblical Exodus from slavery to the freedom of the "promised land."
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