Identifier: negroinliterat00braw (find matches)
Title: The Negro in literature and art in the United States
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Brawley, Benjamin Griffith, 1882-1939
Subjects: African American authors African American artists African American musicians American literature -- African American authors History and criticism
Publisher: New York, Duffield & Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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h moneyto pay his passage to France. Here he tookup a special study of music, and finally becamedirector of the orchestra of LAlcazar, in Bor-deaux, France. * The foremost composer of the race to-day isHarry T. Burleigh, who within the last fewyears has won a place not only among themost prominent song-writers of America, butof the world. He has emphasized compositionsin classical vein, his work displaying greattechnical excellence. Prominent among hislater songs are Jean, the Saracen Songs,One Year (1914-1915), the Five Songs ofLaurence Hope, set to music, The YoungWarrior (the words of which were written byJames W. Johnson), and Passionale (foursongs for a tenor voice, the words of whichwere also by Mr. Johnson). Nearly two yearsago, at an assemblage of the Italo-AmericanRelief Committee at the Biltmore Hotel, NewYork, Mr. Amato, of the Metropolitan Opera,sang with tremendous effect, The YoungWarrior, and the Italian version has later * Washington: The Story of the Negro, II, 276-7.
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HARRY T. BURLEIGH Music 131 been used all over Italy as a popular song inconnection with the war. Of somewhat strongerquality even than most of these songs are TheGrey Wolf, to words by Arthur Symons, TheSoldier, a setting of Rupert Brookes wellknown sonnet, and Ethiopia Saluting theColors. An entirely different division of Mr.Burleighs work, hardly less important thanhis songs, is his various adaptations of the Negromelodies, especially for choral work; and heassisted Dvorak in his New World Sym-phony, based on the Negro folk-songs. Forhis general achievement in music he was, in1917, awarded the Spingarn Medal. His workas a. singer is reserved for later treatment. Another prominent composer is Will MarionCook. Mr. Cooks time has been largely givento the composition of popular music; at thesame time, however, he has produced numeroussongs that bear the stamp of genius. In 1912a group of his tuneful and characteristic pieceswas published by Schirmer. Generally hiswork exhibits not only

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