Harry T. Burleigh : From The Spiritual To The Harlem Renaissance.

Harry T. Burleigh (1866-1949) played a leading role in American music and culture in the twentieth century. Celebrated for his arrangements of spirituals, Burleigh was also the first African American composer to create a significant body of art song. An international roster of opera and recital singers performed his works and praised them as among the best of their time. Jean E. Snyder traces Burleigh's life from his Pennsylvania childhood through his fifty-year tenure as soloist at St. George's Episcopal Church in Manhattan.

432 p.; 24 cm.
Cloth

Language: English
ISBN: 0252039947
ISBN13: 9780252039942