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    Robert Nathaniel Dett (October 11, 1882 – October 2, 1943), often known as R. Nathaniel Dett and Nathaniel Dett, was a Canadian-American composer, organist...
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  • and musician Nathaniel Clyne (born 1991), English footballer Nathaniel W. Depee (1812–1868), American abolitionist Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882–1943),...
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  • The Nathaniel Dett Chorale is a Canadian choral group that specializes in Afrocentric music of all styles including classical, spirituals, gospel, jazz...
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    Helen Elise Smith Dett (April 1888 – 2 October 1950) was an American pianist and music educator, the wife of composer Robert Nathaniel Dett. She was the first...
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  • spirituals and their derivatives. Black composers, Harry Burleigh and R. Nathaniel Dett, created a "new repertoire for the concert stage" by applying their...
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  • Grammy Award-winning songwriter Glen Benton, death metal musician Robert Nathaniel Dett, composer Richard Ray Farrell, electric blues guitarist, harmonicist...
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    Church was established for African-Canadian worshipers. The BME Church, Nathaniel Dett Memorial Chapel is now a National Historic Site, remaining in operation...
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  • Allen (1882–1952) Marion Bauer (1882–1955) Seth Bingham (1882–1972) Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882–1943) Ralph Lyford (1882–1927) Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884–1920)...
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    and contemporary black aestheticians, including Harry Burleigh, Robert Nathaniel Dett, Alain Locke and Zora Neale Hurston. It is in the retrieval of black...
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    musicians in the early to mid-20th century include Garnet Brooks, Robert Nathaniel Dett, Portia White, Oscar Peterson, and Charlie Biddle. Some Black Canadian...
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    the state assembly, a framer of the federal Constitution Music Robert Nathaniel Dett, notable composer, pianist, choir director, educator, administrator...
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  • activist, first Canadian woman to be depicted on Canadian currency Robert Nathaniel Dett, composer Rita Deverell, broadcaster and journalist, founder of...
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  • early world-systems theorist who taught at Lincoln (1949–1970) Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882–1943), classical composer Althea Gibson (1927–2003), black...
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  • on the black entertainment circuit. Canadian-born black composer Robert Nathaniel Dett is the first to arrange a spiritual in a motet, with "Don't Be Weary...
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    Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art Robert Nathaniel Dett Helen Elise Smith Dett Alma Adams Merze Tate Gloria Randle Scott (1987–2001)...
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    London Chapel) Lennox Berkeley – Jonah 1936, Leeds Festival (1937) Robert Nathaniel Dett – The Ordering of Moses (1937, revived 2014, Cincinnati) Lorenzo...
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    Kingdom"- Robert Carr and Ethel Toms (White singers) No. 54 "I Don’t Feel Noways Tired"-Edward H. S. Boatner / "In the Bottoms"-Robert Nathaniel Dett No. 55...
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  • (1863–1899) Edmond Dédé, US (1827–1903) Leonard De Paur, US (1914–1998) Robert Nathaniel Dett, Canada (1882–1943) John Thomas Douglass, US (1847–1886) Rudolph...
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    behind some of these international hits were Canadian songwriters. Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882–1943) was among the first Black Canadian composers during...
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  • Sève (1858–1927) Jacques Desjardins Jean Deslauriers (1909–1978) Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882–1943) Alan Detweiler (1926–2012) Keiko Devaux Zosha Di Castri...
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  • by Gamal Abdel-Rahim, Margaret Bonds, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Robert Nathaniel Dett, Halim El-Dabh, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Gyimah Labi, and Joshua...
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    Ingolf Dahl [pupils] Isabelle Delorme [pupils] Kenwood Dennard Robert Nathaniel Dett Liam Devlin David Diamond [pupils] Ding Shande John Woods Duke E...
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  • the creation of the Theater Owners Booking Association (TOBA). Robert Nathaniel Dett becomes the first African American director of music at Hampton...
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  • 2019 R. Nathaniel Dett British Methodist Episcopal Church, Directory of Designations of National Historic Significance of Canada R. Nathaniel Dett British...
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    November 9, 1937. Entitled Wings Over Jordan, the program featured the Robert Nathaniel Dett song "Keep Me From Sinking Down". The choir received another prime-time...
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    from left, Mildred Bryant Jones, Carl Rossini Diton, Alice Carter Simmons, Robert Nathaniel Dett, Martha Broadus Anderson, and Clarence Cameron White....
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    held a memorial concert for Simmons and her colleagues Robert Nathaniel Dett and Maude Roberts George. Naida McCullough was one of the musicians featured...
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    this movement were composers and artists such as Florence Price, Robert Nathaniel Dett, and Clarence Cameron White. From 1921 to 1922, Holt published and...
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    concert of Black composers in Chicago, sharing the bill with pianist Robert Nathaniel Dett and others. Brown sang in New York and Dallas in 1915. She toured...
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  • piano lessons as a child with Mayme Jones, who had been taught by Robert Nathaniel Dett. She won a piano competition in 1919. Perry also learned to play...
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