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Two Unreconciled Strivings

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Spirituals

Despite his lack of formal training, African-American singer and composer Harry Thacker Burleigh (1866-1949) was accepted into the National Conservatory of Music, where he was befriended by the composer Antonin Dvorak.

Negro Spirituals sheet music

Hard trials; Mat. XXIV, 21; Mat. VIII, 20. Negro spirituals. 1909

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