Negro Spirituals

                Negro “Spirituals” have been forming recently a part of the weekly lunch-hour musical programs at SouthwarkCathedral of London.  These “spontaneous outbursts of intense religious feeling at camp meetings and revivalist gatherings” have made an appeal to the working people comprising a large part of the attendance of the programs; and among the most popular have been “SwingLow, Sweet Chariot,” “By and By,” “Balm in Gilead” and “Were You There?”

 Enjoy Marion Williams' performance of "Were You There?":

THE ETUDE MUSIC MAGAZINE – February 1927