TODAY IN HISTORY--March 13, 1987:

TODAY IN HISTORY--March 13, 1987: Internationally renowned Nigerian organist-composer, Fela Sowande, died of stroke in Ravenna, Ohio State. In 1965, Sowande specifically requested that one of his own organ works, Bury Me Eas or Wes (from the Sacred Idioms of the Negro), be played at his funeral. African-American organist and personal friend of Sowande, Eugene Hancock, honored this request at the memorial service that took place at St. James' Episcopal Church in New York, on May 3, 1987. Hancock also performed other works by Sowande at the service.

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