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Open the Window SATB
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Open the Window - Studio Album by Elise Witt

Open the Window

$1.00 – $5.95

by Elise Witt adapted from the Sea Island Spiritual “Heist the Window, Noah”
© Non Si Sa Mai Music ASCAP

Recorded on Elise’s CD “Open the Window” on EMWorld Records EMW-1008
Included in All Singing: The Elise Witt Songbook
Available as SATB, SSAA, TTBB choral arrangements in the Elise Witt Choral Series

Profits from “Open the Window” support the Penn Center on St. Helena Island SC, preserving and sustaining the Gullah Geechee culture. http://www.penncenter.com/

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SKU: EWCS-1001 Category: Choral Series Tags: Birth, Choices, Dark & Light, Elders, Environment, Flower Communion, Home, Immigration/Refugees, Justice, Language, Mindfulness, Peace, Regeneration, Sign Language, Struggle
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“Open the Window” originated on the Sea Islands of Georgia and South Carolina, as “Heist the Window, Hoah.” It has its roots in enslaved Africans who were brought from Sierra Leone to work the rice fields. This is a recording of the McIntosh County Shouters, singing another song in a similar style to give you an idea of the nature and power of this music (with commentary from the documentary “Jubilee”):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtYh-L173KU 

From the 1929 film “St. Louis Blues” Mahalia Jackson and Pearl Bailey sing “Heist the Window, Noah,” the Sea Island Spiritual that inspired “Open the Window” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shMqAAH6oAw

Bi-lingual Spanish/English version with Lisset & Judith Rodés & Mick Kinney https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfuvi821yug&list=PLRhQuQHc-lE4iG04UcWND1Kyt4Py2RyWd&index=12

Elise & Lea Morris w/ Sing Language https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-DmsSuY-5o

Elise & Mick “Open the Window” w/Something Else @ Local Color, Springville AL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W290ehd4EEg

Rising Appalachia sings Open the Window leading into “Wider Circles” ~ Live in Berlin 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-UAVHoCbHg

Lydia Violet Hartoonian sings “Open the Window” as a mash up with the Persian song “Majnoon Naboodom” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYoZ7kB54nc

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Weight .10 lbs
Dimensions 8.5 × .1 × 11 in
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Digital Download for Perusal $5.95 one copy, Digital Download for Choir Copies $10 + $1 per copy you make, Print Copies $2.25 each plus postage

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