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    Harry Burleigh (born Henry Thacker Burleigh, December 2, 1866 – September 12, 1949) was an American classical composer, arranger, and professional singer...
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  • Burleigh (1843-1916), American politician Harry Burleigh, African-American composer James Burleigh (1869-1917), English footballer Michael Burleigh,...
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  • audience for the spirituals and their derivatives. Black composers, Harry Burleigh and R. Nathaniel Dett, created a "new repertoire for the concert stage"...
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    contributed lyrics to Randy Weston's Uhuru Afrika (Roulette, 1960). Harry Burleigh set the poem "Lovely, dark, and lonely one" from the 1932 collection...
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    encountered an African-American student, Harry T. Burleigh, who sang traditional spirituals to him. Burleigh, later a composer himself, said that Dvořák...
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  • arrangements have been created; including those by William L. Dawson, Harry Burleigh, Gerre Hancock, Moses Hogan, and Norman Luboff. The spiritual has been...
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    Harris, Warren Harding, Harry Burleigh, Lawrence Tibbett, John Kellogg, Lyndon Johnson, Hoodoo Brown, James Hogg, Geoff Lloyd, Harry Pace, Joseph Lyons, Albert...
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  • as Harry Burleigh David Ladd as David Chandler Cecil Kellaway as Dr. Enos Davis (Quaker) James Westerfield as Birm Bates Dean Stanton as Jeb Burleigh Thomas...
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    style of music. Here Dvořák met Harry Burleigh, who later became one of the earliest African-American composers. Burleigh introduced Dvořák to traditional...
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    Jubilee Singers: With Their Songs, by J. B. T. Marsh. By 1917, when Harry Burleigh completed the last of his several influential arrangements, the song...
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