- Collection:
- Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
- Title:
- A Celebration of the Life fo Romare H. Bearden, 1912-1988, The Cathedral Church of St. John The Divine, Amsterdam Avenue at 112th Street, New York, New York
- Date of Original:
- 1988-04-06
- Subject:
- African American men--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century
African Americans--Funeral customs and rites--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century
Funeral rites and ceremonies--New York (State)--New York---History--20th century
Funeral service--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century
Mourning customs--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century
African Americans--New York (State)--New York--Genealogy - Location:
- United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729
- Medium:
- church records
programs (documents)
records (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Funeral program for Romare H. Bearden. Birth date: 1912. Death date: 1988. Funeral date: April 6, 1988. Church: The Cathedral Church of St. John The Divine (New York, N.Y.). The Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia in association with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History as part of Georgia HomePLACE. The project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.
- Local Identifier:
- Folder number: 22
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:aarl_afpc_beardenromareh19880406
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:aarl_afpc_beardenromareh19880406
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- Holding Institution:
- Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History
- Rights:
-
A
CELEBRATION
OF THE LIFE OF
ROMARE H. BEARDEN
1912-1988
THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE
Design: Oliver & Partners Printing: Darbert Offset Corporation Concept: June Kelly
AMSTERDAM AVENUE AT ll2TH STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK
A MEMORIAL SERVICE
Wednesday, April6, 1988 12 o'clock Noon
Presiding
THE VERY REVEREND JAMES PARKS MORlDN DEAN, THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE
THE REVEREND CANON LLOYD S. CASSON SUB DEAN, THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE
THE ORDER OF SERVICE
ORGAN PRELUDE
PROCESSIONAL
DOROTHY PAPADAKOS ASSISTANT ORGANIST/THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE
COLLECT
THE VERY REVEREND JAMES PARKS MORlDN
PSALMS 23 AND 121 ANGLICAN CHANT
THE CATHEDRAL CHOIR
THE SCRIPTURE READING I Corinthians 13
THE REVEREND DAVID JOHNSON REClDR, ST. MARTIN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, MANHATTAN
MUSICAL TRIBUTE
"Lament," music by Sam Rivers, From the Jazz Opera, ''The Black Cowboys''
Geanie Faulkner
Choreographer Dancer Music
DANCE TRIBUTE ''Mourner's Bench''
Talley Beaty Broderick Wilson Balm in Gilead-Traditional
Artistic Director Soprano Mezzo Soprano Contralto Tenor Baritone Baritone
Jubilee Spirituals Singers
Emory Taylor Geanie Faulkner Denise Woods Bernice Watkins Hugh Harrell Everette Jenkins Emory Taylor
MEMORIES AND TRIBUTES
Message From The White House: President Reagan's Representative
Fabian Badejo
The Honorable Mary Schmidt Campbell Commissioner of Cultural Affairs
Ralph Ellison
Derek Walcott
MUSICAL TRIBUTE
''Seabreeze'' by Larry Douglas, Fred Norman and Romare Bearden
Jackie McLean
''Never Go Away,'' by Merton D. Simpson
''Memories of You,'' by Eubie Blake
Curtis Boyd
Leon Booths Malleson
George Coleman
Danny Moore
Harold Mabern
Merton D. Simpson
''How I Got Over,'' music by Clara Ward
''Rock My Soul In The Bosom of Abraham,'' music by Howard Roberts and Brother John Sellers
Brother John Sellers
Robert McCaan Accompanist
PRAYERS AND THE LORD'S PRAYER
THE REVEREND CANON LLOYD S. CASSON
THE CHOIR ANTHEM
THE CATHEDRAL CHOIR
THE BENEDICTION
THE REVEREND CANON LLOYD S. CASSON
Improvisation on saxophone
THE RETIRING PROCESSION Dorothy Papadakos
Jackie McLean
An exhibition of works by Romare Bearden tracing the development of the artist's career is on view today in the Cathedral. The works have been generously loaned by: Richard V. Clarke, Bernice and Jack Fein, June Kelly, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and Private Collections.