1987

Day

Composed by Lena J. McLin
"Day" is a song by Lena McLin with text by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Audio Track

Day
Marcía Porter, soprano and Rosalyn Wright Floyd, piano1:17

Lena McLin

Composer

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Poet(s)/Writer(s)

2022

Date

University of California, Irvine, Winifred Smith Hall

Location

This recording was part of a 8pm concert ("My Sister’s Keeper") on Friday, October 14, 2022 during the 25th Anniversary African American Art Song Alliance Conference. The concert venue was Winifred Smith Hall at the University of California, Irvine.

Text

The gray dawn on the mountain top
Is slow to pass away.
Still lays him by in sluggish dreams,
The golden God of day.

And then a light along the hills,
Your laughter silvery gay;
The Sun God wakes, a bluebird trills,
You come and it is day.

Sheet Music

Lena McLin: Songs for Voice and Piano

Lena McLin
Silence
The Unlucky Apple
Day
et. al
Medium High Voice
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