Dawn's Awakening

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Lyricist and Source

James Joseph Burke (1836[?]–1928)¹

Manuscripts

MS Coll. 199: Marian Anderson Collection of Music Manuscripts, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
- Bound score (undated facsimile): Box 59, Folder 1399²

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Bibliography

Brown, Rae Linda. The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price. Music in American Life. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020.

Notes

Certain recent sources list Burke’s dates of life as 1836–1928, suggesting that he was Capt. James Burke, described in the Staten Island Advance (April 24, 1924) as a “prolific writer of verse.” Burke’s gravestone gives his birth year as 1835. Obituaries listed him variously as 91, 92, and 93 years old when he died in April 1928. ↩
This score contains the dedication, “Dedicated to Marian Anderson” in blue pen. ↩