Zora Neale Hurston Hurston heard concert spirituals "squeezing all of the rich black juice out of the songs," a "flight from blackness," a "musical octoroon." She listed Harry Burleigh among the offenders. But without Burleigh there would be no "Deep River" as sung by Marian Anderson. " Joe Horowitz
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18AM on August 27, 2019