Henry Thacker Burleigh

Sandra and Alex will focus on the music of Henry “Harry” Thacker Burleigh, composer, arranger, and vocalist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  Burleigh (1866-1949), was the first to publish African American spirituals as mainstream concert pieces for solo voice and piano.

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