... Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 A Symphony of Dark Voices One day during W C. Handy's visit to Southern California, we drove him to Tijuana, over the Mexican border. As we sat in a restaurant eating our dinner, a singer who accompanied himself on a guitar came to entertain us...

... Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 A Negro Symphony Orchestra Since 1937, when a Los Angeles publication mentioned the fact that one of my ideals is the realization of a Negro Symphony Orchestra so fine that it would rank with and perhaps surpass the best in the world, several...

... Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Notes to the Hampton Choir at Symphony Hall Negro Melody as Cantus and Chorale In this day of jazz and exaggeration, it is not surprising that what might be called the "cathedral element" in Negro folk song has been largely overlooked...

... Arvey. "Negro Music in the Americas." Revue Internationale de Musique, May-June 1938, 280 88. "The Negro Musician in America." Music Educators Journal 56 (January 1970): 100-1, 157-61. "A Negro Symphony Orchestra." Opportunity, September 1939, 267, 286 87. // On Composing for the Harp." American...

.... A reviewer of the concert the Hampton choir gave at Boston's Symphony Hall the month prior to the Carnegie Hall concert seemed to 142 Black Sacred Music succumb to Maynor's powers. Writing for the March II issue of the Boston Globe, the writer commented on the fine artistry of the choir and spoke of Maynor...

...James W. McClendon, Jr. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Charles Edward IvesTheologian in Music fames W Mcclendon, fr. By now the music of Charles Ives is as familiar to concertgoers as that of any American composer. His Concord Sonata for piano and his great Fourth Symphony...

... by Arvey through her journalism. Still is credited with being the first African-American to compose a symphony that was performed by a prominent symphonic orchestra the Afro-American Symphony (1931), which premiered on October 29, 1931 under the direction of Howard Hanson at the Eastman School of Music. He...

... of claiming that there were no Negroid themes or treatments in the latter's own "New World" Symphony. This claim, in turn, is amply disproved by the writings of Mr. Harry T. Burleigh, a colored man who was the source of Dr. Dvorak's acquaintance with American Negro music. The Negro has influenced music...

... the The Negro Musician in America 209 yearnings of a people who sought a better way of life. The form of the blues seemed to be well-defined and capable of being the basis for compositions in larger forms a task I attempted on several occa­ sions, notably in composing the Afro-American Symphony, Lenox Avenue...

... composer should be one whose studies in many fields, added to his natural talent, enable him to try, at last, to walk in the paths of those master musicians who wrote in larger forms: symphonies, operas, chamber music, and so on. Of course, writing songs and arranging Spirituals do call for many...

... in general, forms from which symphonies can be derived. The blues, for instance, is a pure Negroid secular expression. It is not a trivial expression, despite some of the vulgar sentiments in its texts. The tenderness of its melodies and the spontaneous, unconscious poetry of its words are telling us about...

... Boatner, Edward, 118 Book of American Negro Poetry, The, xiv Book of American Negro Spirituals, The, xii; review of, 48-50 Boston Symphony Orchestra, 122 Boulanger, Nadia, 1, 88 Bowers, Thomas J., 116, 122 Brown, Hilda, 96 Burleigh, Harry T., vii, viii, 3, 7, 40, 63, 72, 97, 100, 117, 125, 126, 128 Burlin...

... on the thought of America regarding Negro music development: (r.) The world tour, about the year 1880, of the famous Fisk Jubilee Singers. (2.) The compositions of Stephen Foster, and the organization for which many of his songs were written. (3.) The symphony, From the New World, by Antonin Dvovak. When...

... unique in the music history of America; Henry F. Williams and F. E. Lewis, who became 116 ffle I. llodtaniel Dell leader members of the great symphony orchestra of the Coliseum, Boston; Justin Holland, linguist, authority on, and virtuoso of the guitar, teacher of members of the first families...

... Musician in America," and "A Symphony of Dark Voices." Equally as expansive as Still's experiences and knowledge of Amer­ ican music are the sources in which he published, including such music journals as Etude, Musical Journal, Music Educators Journal, Music of the West, and Opera, Concert and Symphony...

... admittedly stems from the Negro, is recognized as a vital factor in American music as a whole; where two Negro symphony conductors are making frequent public appearances; where a few colored instru­ mentalists have been employed in American symphony orchestras; where at least one Negro is an active...

... to be the acknowledged source of inspiration. So much has been written and said of the "New World Symphony, 11 that more is not necessary here. It is sufficient to recall the fact that the symphony and Dvofak's remark that "the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called Negro melodies" were...

... Choir at Carnegie Hall (1928), Symphony Hall (1929), and Queen's Hall in London (1930). This reader is the first comprehensive collection of Dett's musicological writings, which, taken together, compose a systematic argument for the preservation of the black spirituals. What makes this compilation even...

...: William Grant Still. New York: Fischer, 1939. . "Symphonies in Black." Musical fournal 32 (April 1974); 28-29, 32-36. . "W G. S. Creator of Indigenous American Music." The Chesterian 20, no. 145 (May-June 1939): 134-38. . "William Grant Still, American Composer." Co-Art Turntable, Feb­ ruary 1942...

... for the warriors. I shall be a drummer for the ancestors. I will beat the fool out of those drums! I Hear the Drums 81 82 The Journal of Black Sacred Music VI. Drums and Symphonies When the drums Shall have faded away, It shall have been said of us That we were born here, And that this land now desolate Was our...