First performed May 1976 at Alice Tully Hall, New York, N.Y.
Song lyrics also printed as text.
At end: May, 1976 DRM.
Staff notation
I had no thought of violets of late / Alice Dunbar Nelson -- Joy / Clarissa Scott Delany -- Some things are very dear to me ; He came in silvern armour / Gwendolyn B. Bennett -- Song for a dark girl / Langston Hughes -- Idolatry / Arna Bontemps -- Youth sings a song of rosebuds / Countee Cullen -- Invocation / Helene Johnson