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
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