A Hand Is on the Gate

• World Premiere (1966)
  New York, NY
• Original Broadway Production (1966)
  New York, NY

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Original score

• From the Dark Tower
• The Negro Speaks of Rivers
• Frederick Douglass
• We Wear the Mask
• Rungate Rungate
• from The Dark Symphony: Lento Grave
• from O Black and Unknown Bards
• Buked and Scorned
• Ol' Lem
• Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem
• Southern Mansion
• Mother to Son
• Sence You Went Away
• When Malindy Sings
• A Negro Love Song
• All Hid
• Little Boy
• An Old Woman Remembers
• Between the World and Me
• My Angel
• Dink's Song
  • aka Fare Thee Well [no note]
• Journey to a Parallel
• The End of a Man Is His Beauty
• The Ballad of Rudolph Reed
• A Moment Please
• We Have Been Believers
• O' Shenandoah
• from Speech: I Have Heard
• La Vie C'est La Vie
• At Early Morn
• The Elevator Man
• Look at That Gal
• Glory, Glory
• To a Young Poet
• from Four Questions
• Counterpoint
• Meanwhile a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon
• The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till
• Bound No'th Blues
• Ma Rainey
• Get Up Blues
• The Rebel
• Distant Drum
• No Images
• Why Try
• Ontogeny Recapitulates
• Robert Whitmore
• Harlem Sweeties
• from A Street in Bronzeville: Kitchenette
• After Winter
• When in Rome
• American Gothic: To Satch
• Jane Jane
• Epigram
• Conception
• Alien
• My Lord, What a Morning
• The Preacher Ruminates
• Personal
• Preface to a 20 Volume Suicide Note
• Careless Love
  • aka Love, Oh Love [no note]
• This Ain't No Mass Thing
• Rocks and Gravel
• If The Birds

A program of poetry and folk music by American Negroes arranged and directed by Roscoe Lee Browne.

• An Evening of Negro Poetry and Folk Music (Original title)