Great Voices Singing H. T. Burleigh

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Great Voices Singing
H. T. Burleigh
Celebrating the 150th Birthday of Composer
Harry Thacker Burleigh (1866-1949)
Randye J...

Biography
Harry T. Burleigh (1866-1949) had well established himself as a professional musician by the
mid-1910’s. He serv...

H. T. Burleigh’s Spiritual Art Songs
• Published “Deep River” for solo voice and piano in
1916, becoming the first art son...

Robert McFerrin, baritone (1921-2006)
Deep River (1916)
Deep river, My home is over Jordan;
Deep river, Lord,
I want cross...

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H. T. Burleigh, baritone
Go Down Moses (1919)
When Israel was in Egypt land
Let my people go!
Oppressed so hard they could...

Dame Nellie Melba, soprano (1861-1931)
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
(1917)
Swing low, sweet chariot,
Coming for to carry me ho...

Roland Hayes, tenor (1887-1977)
By an’ By (1917)
Oh, by an’ by, by an’ by
I’m goin’ to lay down dis heavy load.
I know my ...

Marian Anderson, contralto (1897-1993)
Heaven, Heaven (1921)
I got a robe, you got a robe,
All God’s children got a robe;
...

Paul Robeson, bass-baritone (1898-1976)
Balm in Gilead (1919)
There is a balm in Gilead
To make the wounded whole
There is...

William Warfield, baritone (1920-2002)
Nobody Knows de Trouble I’ve
Seen (1917)
Nobody knows de trouble I’ve seen,
Nobody ...

Leontyne Price, soprano (b. 1927)
Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit
(1925)
Ev’ry time I feel de Spirit
Movin’ in ma heart, I wi...

Sherrill Milnes, baritone (b. 1935)
Were You There (1918)
Were you there when they crucified
my Lord?
Were you there when ...

Martina Arroyo, soprano (b. 1937)
Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray
(1922)
An’ I couldn’t hear nobody pray,
An’ I couldn’t hear no...

Barbara Hendricks, soprano (b. 1948)
I've Been in de Storm So Long
(1927)
I’ve been in de storm so long;
I’ve been in de s...

Lawrence Brownlee, tenor (b. 1972)
Sometimes I Feel Like a
Motherless Child (1918)
Sometimes I feel like a motherless chil...

Conclusions
Burleigh has:
• Influenced singers to study and perform his
works
• Inspired composers to emulate his
composit...

Questions?
“. . . In Negro spirituals my race has pure gold, and they should be taken as the
Negro’s contribution to artis...

Discography
Great Voices Singing H. T. Burleigh
• Anderson, Marian. Marian Anderson. Nimbus Records NI 7882, 1996, compact...

Presenter Contact Information
Randye Jones
rljones@afrovoices.com
Afrocentric Voices in “Classical” Music
http://afrovoice...