{"id":2749,"date":"2023-09-27T23:31:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T03:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/?p=2749"},"modified":"2023-09-27T23:31:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T03:31:46","slug":"celebrating-harry-burleigh-on-october-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/2023\/09\/celebrating-harry-burleigh-on-october-14.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Celebrating Harry Burleigh&#8221; on October 14"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Newark-School-of-the-Arts-1.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"PDF embed\"><\/object><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Newark-School-of-the-Arts-1.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ll be joining the baritone Sidney Outlaw \u2013 an exceptional artist \u2013 in songs and spirituals by Harry Burleigh on Saturday, October 14, at the Newark School of the Arts. It\u2019s a one-hour presentation, at noon, followed by a master class. It\u2019s free but you need to reserve tickets at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:pmolina@newarkschoolofthearts.org\">pmolina@newarkschoolofthearts.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Burleigh \u2013 once Dvorak\u2019s assistant in New York &#8212; is mainly remembered for turning spirituals into deeply felt concert songs. But his art songs \u2013 a separate repertoire \u2013 deserve fresh advocacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our program will include \u201cLovely, Dark, and Lonely One\u201d \u2013 arguably Burleigh\u2019s peak achievement. A supreme American art song, it both sets and confutes Langston Hughes. As I\u2019ve observed <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/2023\/04\/rediscovering-harry-burleigh-a-valedictory-setting-of-langston-hughes.html\">in<\/a> this space<\/strong> and in the&nbsp;<em>Wall Street Journal :<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Processing Hughes\u2019s expression of impatience, Burleigh turns the poem upside down. . . . Not for Burleigh is Langston Hughes\u2019s agitation, or the activism of a Paul Robeson. Nor is there the merest hint of modernist dissonance. We do not have to agree with him in order to admire the eloquence with which he here sustains his credo . . . that \u2018deliverance from all that hinders and oppresses the soul will come and man\u2014every man\u2014will be free.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sidney Outlaw will also be heard in recital at the Manhattan School of Music on October 12. And he can be heard on my upcoming NPR &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.josephhorowitz.com\/npr-documentaries\">More<\/a> than Music&#8221; <\/strong>program on &#8220;Cultural Diplomacy Revisited&#8221; (Oct. 16)&#8211; memorably singing Gershwin and spirituals to fishermen in Chad.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll be joining the baritone Sidney Outlaw \u2013 an exceptional artist \u2013 in songs and spirituals by Harry Burleigh on Saturday, October 14, at the Newark School of the Arts. It\u2019s a one-hour presentation, at noon, followed by a master class. It\u2019s free but you need to reserve tickets at&nbsp;pmolina@newarkschoolofthearts.org Burleigh \u2013 once Dvorak\u2019s assistant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2QLHN-Il","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2749"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2761,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/uq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}