Santa Ain't Black (Low Voice)
cabaret song for baritone voice (PDF Download)
INSTRUMENTATION: piano/vocal
DURATION: 3:15
PAGES: 10
WORLD PREMIERE: New York Public Library of the Performing Arts, 2011
This song is intended for performance by a Black singer.
I was invited to contribute a song to the Broadway’s Future concert series for emerging musical theatre writers at the NYPL back in 2011. It was the height of many panic cycles of “In this country, we say MERRY CHRISTMAS!” and, of course, tedious freakouts about Santa Claus’s true racial identity. What could I do but enlist the brilliant John-Andrew Morrison to help me give the finger to all that nonsense? We’ve been privileged to perform it many times around NYC over the years. It’s the closest I’ll ever get to writing a heartwarming holiday classic. This is transposed down a whole step from the original F minor to Eb minor for the lower-pitched Santas among us.
cabaret song for baritone voice (PDF Download)
INSTRUMENTATION: piano/vocal
DURATION: 3:15
PAGES: 10
WORLD PREMIERE: New York Public Library of the Performing Arts, 2011
This song is intended for performance by a Black singer.
I was invited to contribute a song to the Broadway’s Future concert series for emerging musical theatre writers at the NYPL back in 2011. It was the height of many panic cycles of “In this country, we say MERRY CHRISTMAS!” and, of course, tedious freakouts about Santa Claus’s true racial identity. What could I do but enlist the brilliant John-Andrew Morrison to help me give the finger to all that nonsense? We’ve been privileged to perform it many times around NYC over the years. It’s the closest I’ll ever get to writing a heartwarming holiday classic. This is transposed down a whole step from the original F minor to Eb minor for the lower-pitched Santas among us.
cabaret song for baritone voice (PDF Download)
INSTRUMENTATION: piano/vocal
DURATION: 3:15
PAGES: 10
WORLD PREMIERE: New York Public Library of the Performing Arts, 2011
This song is intended for performance by a Black singer.
I was invited to contribute a song to the Broadway’s Future concert series for emerging musical theatre writers at the NYPL back in 2011. It was the height of many panic cycles of “In this country, we say MERRY CHRISTMAS!” and, of course, tedious freakouts about Santa Claus’s true racial identity. What could I do but enlist the brilliant John-Andrew Morrison to help me give the finger to all that nonsense? We’ve been privileged to perform it many times around NYC over the years. It’s the closest I’ll ever get to writing a heartwarming holiday classic. This is transposed down a whole step from the original F minor to Eb minor for the lower-pitched Santas among us.