the African continent and the Caribbean. During this time, he also became known as a dance pianist, bandleader, and Hammond organist, playing popular tunes of the day. Western and African ideas prevail in his music, which included organ works such as Yorùbá Lament, Obangiji, Kyrie, Gloria, Jesu Olugbala, and Oba Aba Ke Pe. Most of these show a strong influence from Anglican Church music, combined with Yoruba pentatonic melodies. His orchestral works include Six Sketches for Full Orchestra, A Folk Symphony, and African Suite for string orchestra, and show African rhythmic and harmonic characteristics. The final movement of African Suite became known to Canadian audiences as the theme of the popular CBC music programme Gilmour's Albums, and is now a Canadian orchestral standard. He also wrote a significant amount of secular and sacred choral music, mainly a cappella. Some of these works were composed during his period with the BBC Africa Service. He went back to Nigeria to scholarly work with the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation and later the University of Ibadan. He was appointed MBE in the 1955 Queen's Birthday Honours for his work in the Nigerian Broadcasting Service. In 1968 he moved to Howard University in Washington, D.C., then the University of Pittsburgh. Later life In the last years of his life Sowande taught in the Department of Pan-African Studies at Kent State University, and lived in nearby Ravenna, Ohio with his wife, Eleanor McKinney, who was one of the founders of Pacifica Radio. He died in Ravenna and is buried in Randolph Township, Ohio. In addition to his position as a professor, Sowande also held the chieftaincy title of the Bariyo of Lagos. There is currently a move to set up a centre to research and promote his works, as many remain unpublished or are out of print. Selected compositions Organ 1945 – Ka Mura, Chappell, London 1952 – Pastourelle (for organ), Chappell, London 1955 – Jesu Olugbala, Chappell, London 1955 – Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho, Chappell, London 1955 – Kyrie, Chappell, London 1955 – Obangiji, Chappell, London 1955 – Yorùbá Lament, Chappell, London 1958 – Oyigiyigi, Ricordi, New York 1958 – Gloria, Ricordi, New York 1958 – 'Prayer, Ricordi, New York 1959 – Responses in 'A’ KÕa Mo Rokoso Oba Aba Ke Pe Go Down MosesChoral "The Wedding Day" for S.S.A. with piano, 1957, RDH "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" for S.A.T.B. a