V 1 . |>L V WINS THE THIRD SPINGARN MEDAL H. T. BurWgh, Composer. Awarded Ad\'ancenient of Colored People Prize Washington, f>. C., May IM>. —The third Spinntarn medal was awarded here last rrlßht to Harry T.- Burleigh, the distinguished composer of SOUKS, t a meeting- irt the First Congre gational Church held under fhe au spices of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Moorfield Storey, of Bos ton, the national president of the association, presided; the presenta tion being made by Hon. Wesley 1- Jones, T'nited Stares Senator from Washington. The Spingarn medal is awarded annually to the man or woman of African descent and of American Aitizenship who shall have made the highest achievement during the pre ceding year in any field of elevated or honorable human endeavor; the Candidate being chosen by .1 com mittee of award which includes Bishop John Hurst ol Baltimore; William Howard Taft; John Hope, president Of Alorehotue College, At lanta; Dr. Jomes H. Dillaril, the di rector of the Slater and Jeannes funds, and Oswald Garrison Villard. of the New Tor* Evening Post. Their choice is not limited to any one field, whether that be intellectual, spiritual, physical, scientific, com mercial, educational or any other; BO the winning of the Spingarn medal has come to be the Bfeutest distinction which can be conferred upon an American negro.- The medal is of gold of the value of one hun dred dollars, and is donated by Dr. Joel E. Spingarn, the chairman of the hoard of directors of the Na tional Association for the Advance ment of Colored People, tormtrlj professor of comparative literature in Columbia University, at present in training for his major's commis sion at Madison Batracks, N. Y. Harry T.- Burleigh, the winner of the medal for 1916, is a composer whose Songs have fof (wo or three seasons past been sang by a list of prominent singers which would make any 1 composer's mouth water, from John McCormack to Kitty Cheatham. One song, "Deep River." has probably appeared on more con cert programs during the past sea son more times than the work of any other contemporaneous compos er; and across the ocean Burleigh's ' The Young Warrior," with words hy the negro poet, James Weldon Johnson, translated into Italian and orchestrated by* the great Zandonai, has become a sort of patriotic an them of the present war. Mr, Bur leigh's compositions include about a hundred songs, a few festival an thems for church chorus, and n vol ume of plantation melodies which he compiled in the effort to save them from falling into oblivion. The small group of songs by which he is best known include "Deep River." "The Gray Wolf," to words by Ar thur Symons; a superb setting of Walt Whitman's "Ethopla Saluting the Colors," "The Soldier" and '•Jean/' . Is Best Work "The 'Five Songs of Lawrence Hope.' " writes a crltlo In the Bos ton Transcript of March 10, "prob ably represent Mr. Burleigh's best work. Here are haunting melodies, accompaniments rich hi detail, yet not overwritten, striking tiits of de lineation, and much skill In the weddlnß of music to words." Recarding "The Soldier," A. Wal ter Kramer In Musical America wrote; "Wars produce a mass of inconsequential literary and music stuff. The present European con flict Is no exception. ♦ * But I think that this Burleigh setting of Rupert Brooke's Inspired lines will be among the important art-prod ucts of the great war> when the rec ord is made." And these creative achievements have necessarily been snatched from a life of routine musical toll by which Mr. Burleigh lias earned his dally bread. Since 1894 he has been soloist St. George's church, one of New York's most aristocratic con eregationsi and for seventeen years he has sung at the Temple Emanuel as well. Lived In Pennsylvania These achievements become doubly significant when one realizes how Mr, Burleigh has worked his way forward almost without aid. handi capped by color as well as poverty. It Is related how Mr. Burleigh as a hoy In Erie, Pa., contracted pneu monia from standing In the snow outside the drawing room window of Mrs. Elizabeth Russell, where his family was in service, ln order to hear Rafael Joseffy plav, and was given a chance to open the door for the guests when later Teresa Car reno played at the Russell home ln consequence. Working there as a stenographer until he was twenty si*. In 1892 he came to New York and out of SOO applicants was given a scholarship In the National Con servatory of Music, where he studied ! for four years. By teaching singing; during his last year there together j wits assisting the secretary, the j mother of the well-known American j composer, E. A. MacDowell. he was 1 able to liquidate his indebtedness j to the founder of the Institution. During one summer he worked at a hotel in .Saratoga in order to make enough to' carry him through until ' the following Christmas. But when j ln 189 4 the young musician, stand- | Ing upon the threshold of his career. 1 secured the position of soloist at St. George's in compotlton with sixty other applicants, his path be came much easier. His talent for Interpretation of his own folk songs soon became widely known and he was ln demand to sing In concerts and in the musical programs of the ! leading mansions of fashionable New j York and elsewhere. The achieve- j ments last year which won Mr. Bur leigh the Spingarn medal are but 1 the mature fruitage of a long life 1 of consecrated labor. This is the third year the medal , has been awarded. The firs f was pre sented to Dr. E. E. Just, of Howard University, for original researches In biology. Governor Whitman mak ing the presentation ln New York. year the Governor of Massa chusetts presented the second medal j in Boston to Lieutenant Colonel 1 Charles Young, of the Tenth Cav- ! airy, IT. S. armv, for his services j in reorganizing the constabulary of Liberia. ' George W. Guthrie's Services Next Week Pittsburgh. May 26. Funeral services for the late George W. Guth rie. ambassador to Japan and for- j mer mayor of Pittsburgh, will be ' held next Thursday In Calvary Prot- : estant Episcopal Church. T'pon ar- ! rival hero the body will be taken to the home of Mrs. James P. Brown, 1 Bister of Mr*. Guthrie. All arrange ments hare not yet been completed bot It is probable that the body will lie In stat In Memorial Hall on the day preceding the funeral. The serv ices will be In charge of the Ma sonic order of which the late am bassador was a member. 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