The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #62700   Message #2050741
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
13-May-07 - 01:37 PM
Thread Name: Origins: So High
Subject: RE: Origins: So High
The spiritual is found in these books:
Dann, Hollis, ed., 1924. Fifty-eight Spirituals for Choral Use. C. C. Birchard. Very Scarce.
The title in this book is "Open Door."

Johnson, Hall, 1930. The Green Pastures Spirituals, arr.for voice and piano. 40pp., 4to. Carl Fisher Inc. NY. Sheet music from the two-act Broadway play. Scarce.
The title used is My God Is So High.

So far, not found in older collections that I have seen.
Although sung currently (Azizi, above), surprisingly it is not found in Delores Carpenter, gen. ed., 2001, African American Heritage Hymnal, GIA Publications, Inc., Chicago.