Harry T. Burleigh Society at Carnegie Hall: Fisk Jubilee Singers & Conference, March 2019

Fisk Jubilee Singers^® Sing Harry T. Burleigh Spirituals

March 2nd 2019 Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall 7:30pm  The Harry T. Burleigh Society and the Fisk Jubilee Singers® join in a historic performance celebrating Ella Sheppard (1851–1915), an original Fisk Jubilee Singer, and Harry T. Burleigh (1866–1949), leaders of the concert spiritual tradition. The Fisk Jubilee Singers® will perform the music of these under-heard cultural leaders, and make calls for freedom.

More Than the Promise of the American Myth: Rethinking Burleigh & Sheppard in the Second Gilded Age

March 3rd, 2019  May Room - Weill Terrace Room, Carnegie Hall 9am - 3pm The Harry T. Burleigh Society's first academic conference considers Burleigh's and Sheppard's impact on the concert spiritual genre, the historiographic limits of composer biography, Black art music aesthetics, and the liberatory capabilities within the work of Burleigh, Sheppard, and their contemporaries. Dr. Daphne Brooks will deliver the keynote address. Other speakers include Dr. Louise Toppin, baritone Kenneth Overton, Dr. Crystal deGregory and descendants of Burleigh and Sheppard.

Free and open to the public. Registration encouraged.