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Deborah Pritchard. Deborah Pritchard. Deborah Pritchard is a British composer. She is known for her concert works, a compositional approach informed by her synaesthesia, and her work in response to visual artists, most notably Marc Chagall and Maggi Hambling. She also paints music in the form of visualisations and music maps.
Harry Dixon Loes. Harry Dixon Loes (October 20, 1892 – February 9, 1965) was an American composer and teacher, best known for his arrangement of the gospel song "This Little Light of Mine". [1] [2] Loes was a prolific composer and hymn writer, hymnal editor, and music professor, [1] as well as musical director in several churches and an ...
This Little Girl of Mine. " This Little Girl of Mine " is a rhythm and blues single written and released as a single by Ray Charles in 1955 on the Atlantic label. "This Little Girl of Mine" played off "This Little Light of Mine", [1] much like the previous "I Got a Woman" and the later "Hallelujah I Love Her So" played off other classic gospel ...
This Little Light of Mine. " This Little Light of Mine " is an African-American song from the 1920s. It was often reported to be written for children in the 1920s by Harry Dixon Loes, but he never claimed credit for the original version of the song, and researchers at the Moody Bible Institute, where Loes worked, said they have found no ...
Zilphia Horton (April 14, 1910 – April 11, 1956) was an American musician, community organizer, educator, Civil Rights activist, and folklorist.She is best known for her work with her husband Myles Horton at the Highlander Folk School where she is generally credited with turning such songs as "We Shall Overcome", "We Shall Not Be Moved," and "This Little Light of Mine" from hymns into ...
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Fikes was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Freedom Singers, [3] and became known as "the Voice of Selma". [4] She was jailed as a teenager in 1963 for her participation in a Selma protest and was also involved in Bloody Sunday in 1965. [5] Her new lyrics for "This Little Light of Mine" and other songs became ...
The King and I is the fifth musical by the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein.It is based on Margaret Landon's novel Anna and the King of Siam (1944), which is in turn derived from the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, governess to the children of King Mongkut of Siam in the early 1860s.