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{{Short description|American composer}} | {{Short description|American composer}} | ||
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| name = Edward Boatner | | name = Edward Boatner | ||
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| death_place = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U. S. | | death_place = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U. S. | ||
| occupation = Composer | | occupation = Composer | ||
|image=Edward Boatner, New York Amsterdam News 1977 12 17 pg36 (cropped).jpg | |||
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'''Edward Hammond Boatner''' (13 November 1898–16 June 1981) was an American composer who wrote many popular concert arrangements of Black American [[spiritual (music)|spiritual]]s. | |||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
Boatner was educated at [[Western University (Kansas)|Western University]] in [[Quindaro, Kansas]], [[Boston Conservatory]] and received a [[Bachelor of Music]] from the Chicago Music College (Now the College of Performing Arts at [[Roosevelt University]]). He also studied music privately. He began as a Concert singer with the encouragement and assistance of [[Roland Hayes]] — who performed many of Boatner's works on his concert programs—and choral director [[R. Nathaniel Dett]]. He also sang leading roles with the [[National Negro Opera Company]]. For the [[National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.|National Baptist Convention]], he served as the director of music from 1925 to 1931. Boatner was a professor for Samuel Huston College (now [[Huston–Tillotson University]]) and Wiley College in Marshall, TX. He then settled in [[New York City|New York]] conducting a studio and directed community and church choirs. This allowed him to concentrate more on composing. | Boatner was educated at [[Western University (Kansas)|Western University]] in [[Quindaro, Kansas]], [[Boston Conservatory]] and received a [[Bachelor of Music]] from the Chicago Music College (Now the College of Performing Arts at [[Roosevelt University]]). He also studied music privately. He began as a Concert singer with the encouragement and assistance of [[Roland Hayes]] — who performed many of Boatner's works on his concert programs—and choral director [[R. Nathaniel Dett]]. He also sang leading roles with the [[National Negro Opera Company]]. For the [[National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.|National Baptist Convention]], he served as the director of music from 1925 to 1931. Boatner was a professor for Samuel Huston College (now [[Huston–Tillotson University]]) and Wiley College in Marshall, TX. He then settled in [[New York City|New York]] conducting a studio and directed community and church choirs. This allowed him to concentrate more on composing. | ||
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* Biography at [http://www.afrovoices.com/boatner.html afrovoices.com] | * Biography at [http://www.afrovoices.com/boatner.html afrovoices.com] | ||
*[http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20547 Edward Boatner papers, 1941–1980] at the [https://www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture] at the [https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/manuscripts-division New York Public Library Manuscripts and Archives Division]. | *[http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20547 Edward Boatner papers, 1941–1980] at the [https://www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture] at the [https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/manuscripts-division New York Public Library Manuscripts and Archives Division]. | ||
*Gisele Glover, “[https://www.colorado.edu/amrc/sites/default/files/attached-files/0506-1998-008-00-000007.pdf The Life and Career of Edward Boatner and Inventory of the Boatner Papers at the Schomburg Center.]” American Music Research Center Journal, vol. 8–9 (1998), pp. 89–106. | *Gisele Glover, “[https://www.colorado.edu/amrc/sites/default/files/attached-files/0506-1998-008-00-000007.pdf The Life and Career of Edward Boatner and Inventory of the Boatner Papers at the Schomburg Center.]” American Music Research Center Journal, vol. 8–9 (1998), pp. 89–106. | ||
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Latest revision as of 01:29, 10 October 2025
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Biography
Boatner was educated at Western University in Quindaro, Kansas, Boston Conservatory and received a Bachelor of Music from the Chicago Music College (Now the College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University). He also studied music privately. He began as a Concert singer with the encouragement and assistance of Roland Hayes — who performed many of Boatner's works on his concert programs—and choral director R. Nathaniel Dett. He also sang leading roles with the National Negro Opera Company. For the National Baptist Convention, he served as the director of music from 1925 to 1931. Boatner was a professor for Samuel Huston College (now Huston–Tillotson University) and Wiley College in Marshall, TX. He then settled in New York conducting a studio and directed community and church choirs. This allowed him to concentrate more on composing.
Boatner was the natural father of the sax player Sonny Stitt, but the boy - named Edward Boatner, Jr. - was placed for adoption early on to the Stitt family, growing up in Saginaw, Michigan.
Music
Notable arrangements
- "Oh, What a Beautiful City"
- "Let Us Break Bread Together"
- "Soon I Will Be Done"
- "Trampling"
- "I want Jesus to walk with me", for Marian Anderson
Notable compositions
- "Freedom Suite" for chorus, narrator, and orchestra
- "The Man from Nazareth", a "spiritual musical"
- "Julius Sees Her", a musical comedy
References
- Southern, Eileen. The Music of Black Americans: A History. W. W. Norton & Company; 3rd edition. Template:ISBN
- Brooks, Tim, Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919, 470-473, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004.
- https://archives.nypl.org/scm/20547
External links
- Biography at afrovoices.com
- Edward Boatner papers, 1941–1980 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library Manuscripts and Archives Division.
- Gisele Glover, “The Life and Career of Edward Boatner and Inventory of the Boatner Papers at the Schomburg Center.” American Music Research Center Journal, vol. 8–9 (1998), pp. 89–106.