#and dvorak heard these beautiful songs and folded them into his own music and we hear them but we don’t hear burleigh’s lovely voice
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Classical music may not be dying quite just yet but I desperately need the world to understand how good the works of the American Romantics is. I have no way of letting people know and it’s killing me
#SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR!!!!!! AMY BEACH!!!! FLORENCE PRICE!!!!!!#people know about Dvorak but they don’t know about Harry Thacker Burleigh who studied at the same conservatory where Dvorak worked#he did janitorial work and manuscript copying and sang beautiful spirituals and plantation songs#and dvorak heard these beautiful songs and folded them into his own music and we hear them but we don’t hear burleigh’s lovely voice#southland sketches!!!#coleridge-taylor’s piano trio for 5 negro melodies!!!#the new world symphony#the american quartet#there’s such a beautiful particular sound and all anyone hears about is Bach or Beethoven.#tragic
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