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After years of selling newspapers or swabbing decks on Great Lakes steamers, Harry Burleigh got a good job-as baritone soloist with the choir of Manhattan's big, downtown St. George's Episcopal Church. That was in 1894, when he was 28. He was still there, at the age of 78, last week. He had become world famed as the composer of some 300 songs and sacred anthems and as the greatest of all arrangers of Negro spirituals...
White-haired Henry Thacker Burleigh put on a white tie and tails and stood affably in St. George's parish house while admirers thronged around in celebration of his 50th anniversary. A delegation of Negroes and whites had come all the way from his native Erie. The Erie Club of New York sent him a silver-banded cane. Fellow parishioners presented a $1,500 check. New York's Bishop William T. Manning made a speech. The choir broke into Burleigh's deft, contrapuntal choral ode, Ethiopia's Paean of Exaltation. In a baritone that was still...
Deep River. Harry Burleigh has composed or arranged (from folk music) some 50 spirituals, of which the most famous is his arrangement of Deep River. They have a deceptive artlessness which conceals the most careful workmanship. Burleigh is one of the most learned and technically able Negro composers in history...
...Burleigh's mother put herself through college, expecting to become a school teacher. Turned down because of her color, she became the housemaid of a wealthy Erie music lover. Between jobs as a houseboy, newsboy, lamplighter, etc., young Harry attended Erie concerts...
Brooklyn has won two previous pennants (1916 and 1920) since the World Series was inaugurated in 1903, but Wee Willie Keeler, Zack Wheat, Burleigh Grimes and Brooklyn's other immortals never succeeded in winning the Series. But Manager Leo Durocher, onetime Cardinal shortstop who, with the aid of nearly $1,000,000 worth of new material, led Brooklyn from third to first place in three years, brags "It'll take five or six games...