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Don't be weary, traveler (1920), by R. Nathaniel Dett (1882--1943)

Quire Cleveland under Artistic Director Ross W. Duffin, singing at Historic St. Peter's Church in downtown Cleveland, April 6, 2014. After his family moved from his native Ontario, Canada, to Niagara Falls, New York, Nathaniel Dett eventually wound up at the Oberlin Conservatory where he completed studies on piano and composition. He pioneered the use of spirituals in classical compositions, and was the first composer of African descent in the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. His "Don't be weary traveler" is one of his most ambitious choral works, called by Dett, "Motet, on a Negro Folk Song Motif." It includes multiple changes of section, a use of the famous Messiah chorus text, "His yoke is easy," and a repeated return to the exhorting refrain, "Come along home to Jesus." The piece won the Francis Boott Prize at Harvard in 1920.