A new project seeks to elevate artists like Harry T. Burleigh and Florence Price, whose work has been ignored by white audiences During an era when American popular music was defined by Aaron Copland's sweeping fanfares and George Gershwin's cinematic melding of styles, African American composers brought their own heritage to their music. Inspired by social and artistic movements in Harlem and Chicago, musicians like Price or Harry T. Burleigh took spirituals, a form borne out of a mix of African traditions with Christian themes <https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200197495/>, and enshrined them in the lexicon of concert performance music. Burleigh’s composition “On Bended Knees,” for example, notably quotes the spiritual “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen.” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/black-classical-music-composers-180976924/
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