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In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms.

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I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

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I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.

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But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.

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As yet, the Negroes themselves do not fully appreciate these old slave songs.

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As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.

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Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience.

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And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.

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Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.

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Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: June 17th, 1871

Died: June 26th, 1938

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