The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face
Alternate Title
- None
Composition Year
- 1935
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Lyricist and Source
- James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)
- Fifty Years and Other Poems. Boston: The Cornhill Company, 1917.1
- OCLC: 1647868
Manuscripts
- MC 988a: Florence Beatrice Smith Price Papers Addendum, Special Collections, Mullins Library, University of Arkansas
- Box 13, Folder 26
- Box 14, Folder 9
- MS Coll. 199: Marian Anderson Collection of Music Manuscripts, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
- Score, complete (undated): Box 59, Folder 1405
Premiere Performance
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Bibliography
- Brown, Rae Linda. The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price. Music in American Life. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020.
Notes
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Johnson wrote this poem while collaborating with Harry T. Burleigh (1866–1949) on a song that was published by G. Ricordi in 1915. ↩