Speakers & Lecturers

a selection of readings and lectures from previous concerts


Lynne Foote

President and Co-Founder, Harry T. Burleigh Society

Reflection on Burleigh's spiritual life in the Episcopal Church at Harry T. Burleigh Society’s 2018 Saint Day Celebration

Dr. Jean Snyder

Ethnomusicologist and Burleigh Biographer

Reflection on Burleigh's spiritual life in the Episcopal Church at Harry T. Burleigh Society’s 2018 Saint Day Celebration

Rev. Terence Lee

Rector, St. Philip’s Church

Prayer at Harry T. Burleigh Society’s 2018 Saint Day Celebration

Kori Hill

Musicologist

“The Stylistic Impact of Harry T. Burleigh” From Song Came Symphony, May 2019

Randye Jones

Soprano and Archivist

Grinnell College

on Harry T. Burleigh's Concert Spirituals and Art Songs.

Dr. Jean Snyder

World’s Leading Scholar on Burleigh

on Harry T. Burleigh

Rev. Jacob Smith

Rector of St. George's Church

Reads an address dedicated to Harry T. Burleigh.

Gabriela Nguyen

Member of St. George’s Church

Reads a school report found in the St. George’s archives written by Walter Allen Scott in 1964.

Dr. Horace Maxile

Associate Professor of Music Theory

Baylor University

Remarks on Harry T. Burleigh’s “From the Southland”