Were You There? (2014) 5.0’

My very dramatic arrangement of the African-American spiritual “Were You There” can be performed in two different versions. The Good Friday version ends softly with “Were you there when they laid him in the tomb?” The exuberant Easter version ends triumphantly with “Were you there when he rose up from the tomb?”

Solo for high voice and piano

An intense, dramatic setting of this well-known spiritual.