"Deep River," the beloved spiritual, gets heard in strikingly diverse settings – from a swing version recorded by Tommy Dorsey in 1941 to an operatic performance at the memorial of Ruth Bader Ginsberg ...
“A native opera in jazz, the music to be by W. Franke Harling, the words by Laurence Stallings, an original form, original context . . . .” so sketchily have run the announcements of Deep River (TIME, ...