(b Niagara Falls, 11 Oct 1882; d Battle Creek, mi, 2 Oct 1943). American composer. He studied at the Oberlin Conservatory and with Boulanger in France (1929). His music, which uses African-American folk music in a neo-Romantic style, includes oratorios, motets, partsongs, piano music and numerous arrangements of spirituals.

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