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.