Slave Songs of the United States, a collection of plantation songs and spirituals compiled by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison, is published.įisk Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, begin their first tour. Greenfield sings in a command performance before Queen Victoria of England. Because African Americans are denied admission to the concert, she gives an additional performance at the Broadway Tabernacle.
1824-1876), known as the "Black Swan," makes her New York debut at the Metropolitan Hall. Please email me if you wish to suggest other entries.Ĭomposer and vocalist Newton Gardner (1746-1826) opens one the first black-owned singing school in the United States.Įlizabeth Taylor Greenfield (ca. Soloists or performing groups, composers, and authors/publishers of books related to vocal music. (A more up-to-date version of this chronology is available at /chronology) Chronologyīelow is a brief, and still very incomplete, chronology of some significant events involving African American vocal AFROCENTRIC VOICES in "Classical" Music-Chronology
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