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2 episodes with Ruth Crawford Seeger
3 episodes with Ruth Crawford Seeger
2 episodes with Ruth Crawford Seeger
2 episodes with Ruth Crawford Seeger
Between new sounds and old songs, Kate Molleson shares the story of Ruth Crawford-SeegerRuth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) had multiple lives. As Ruth, she was an aspiring poet and teacher, who longed to become a mother. Crawford the composer wrote some of the most daring pages of 20th-century American music, granting her a place among the group of the 'Ultra-Modernists'. And, as the matriarch of the Seeger dynasty, she collected and arranged countless pieces from treasures of the folk tradition. With Kate Molleson, discover the extraordinary life and work of a major American composer, in a story of creative experimentations, of family bonds, and most of all, of joy in music-making, accompanied by the memories of Crawford's daughter and folk legend, Peggy Seeger.Music Featured: Little Waltz Five Songs to Poems by Carl Sandburg (1, Home Thoughts; 2, White Moon) Theme and Variations Selection from American Folk Songs for Children Diaphonic Suite No 2 for bassoon and cello Kaleidoscopic Changes on an Original Theme, Ending with a Fugue Diaphonic Suite No 3 for Flute Whirligig Preludes for Piano Caprice Sonata for Violin and Piano Trad: Prisoner Blues Music for Small Orchestra Marion Bauer: Four Piano Pieces Selection from 19 American Folk Songs for piano Three Songs to poems by Carl Sandburg Diaphonic Suite No 4 for oboe and violoncello Three Chants for Female Chorus String Quartet Diaphonic Suite No 1 for oboe Selection from Animal Folk Songs for Children Preludes for Piano Two Ricercare to poems by Hsi Tseng Tsiang Peggy Seeger: How I Long For Peace Selection from American Folk Songs for Christmas Andante for strings Trad: "New River Train” Trad: "Midnight Special" Trad: "Irene (Goodnight, Irene)" Charles Seeger: John Hardy Piano Study in Mixed Accents Suite No 1, for five wind instruments and piano Elizabeth Cotten: "Freight Train" Rissolty, Rossolty Piano Sonata Diaphonic Suite for two clarinets Piano Study in Mixed Accents (Version 3) Suite for Wind Quintet Five Canons, for piano Peggy Seeger: "Everything Changes"Presented by Kate Molleson Produced by Julien Rosa for BBC Audio Wales and WestFor full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0028k1vAnd you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z
durée : 00:25:05 - Ruth Crawford, ultramoderne ou populaire ? - par : Anne-Charlotte Rémond - Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) fut d'abord une compositrice avant-gardiste américaine, avant d'opérer dans les années 30 une bascule vers la musique populaire. Retour sur une artiste rare et plutôt méconnue. - réalisé par : Philippe Petit
Grammy-nominated flutist Brandon Patrick George is a member of Imani Winds and has appeared as a soloist with soloist with the Atlanta, Baltimore, and Albany symphonies, American Composers Orchestra, and the Orchestra of St. Luke's, among others. He's also on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music. Suzanne spoke with Brandon Patrick George about his debut 2020 solo recording, and welcomed him back in Fall 2023 to talk about his second solo recording, TWOFOLD, which pairs solo flute works by composers such as C.P.E. Bach, Ruth Crawford Seeger, and Claude Debussy with new works by composers including Reena Esmail, Saad Haddad, and Shawn E. Okpebholo.
“This sparky woman has done so much, lived so much, crammed so much in. Most of all, she has informed our appreciation of British and North American folk music, like very, very few people have. Then factor in her multiple roles in illuminating the folk, political song and feminist scenes and how her songs have enriched the folk idiom, and you have somebody worth getting amazed about.” - Ken Hunt / Folk Roots Magazine. PEGGY SEEGER was born on 17 June, 1935 in New York City. She is one of the most important figures in the history of folk music. An American folk singer who also achieved renown in Britain, where she lived for more than 30 years, as the wife of songwriter and activist Ewan MacColl. Seeger's father was Charles Seeger (1886–1979), an important folklorist and musicologist; her mother was Seeger's second wife, Ruth Porter Crawford. Ruth Crawford Seeger, who died in 1953, was a modernist composer and was one of the first women to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship. One of her brothers is Mike Seeger, and the well-known songwriter Pete Seeger is her half-brother. Among Peggy Seeger's first recordings in 1955 was ‘American Folk Songs for Children', considered one of her most enduring, and probably the best-selling, collection of children's songs ever recorded. Together with MacColl, Seeger joined The Critics Group, performing satirical songs in a mixture of theatre, comedy and song. Seeger and MacColl recorded as a duo and as solo artists; MacColl wrote "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" in Peggy's honour. Her critically acclaimed classic biography, ‘First Time Ever – A Memoir' was published in 2018. We were delighted to welcome Peggy to The CAT Club for a memorable evening. A splendid time was had by all. CAT Club stalwart IAN CLAYTON was in the interviewer's chair. This event took place on 16 July 2023 in the Pigeon Loft at The Robin Hood, Pontefract, West Yorkshire. To find out more about the CAT Club please visit: www.thecatclub.co.uk Music used in this podcast by kind permission of Peggy Seeger. Happy Trails.
Vandaag twee kwartetten van Henry Cowell naast een hoogst geavanceerd werk van Ruth Crawford Seeger en een merkwaardig ‘ouderwets' werk van Virgil Thomson. Bij Cowell blijft – evenals bij Ives – de indruk bestaan dat hij bekende muziek met verkeerde noten schreef, wat voor ons luisteraars soms bijzonder ontregelend werkt, maar ook verfrissend tegendraads is. […]
Violiste Jellantsje de Vries maakte een CD samen met pianist Bobby Mitchell. Werken van onder meer Klaas de Vries, John Cage en Ruth Crawford Seeger. En violiste Julija Hartig nam met pianiste Reineke Broekhans nét een CD op met louter werken die voor haar zijn gecomponeerd, waaronder door Isidora Zebeljan. 23.04 CD Time & Eternity (Alpha 545) Johann Sebastian Bach: fragmenten bewerkt voor strijkorkest Patricia Kopatchinskaja & Camerata Bern 1'00” 23.08 CD Kraakhelder (7 Mountain Records 7MNTN-035) trad: Rotnheims Knut Jellantsje de Vries [viool] 4'21” 23.20 CD Kraakhelder (7 Mountain Records 7MNTN-035) Ruth Crawford Seeger: Sonate voor viool en piano - I Vibrante Agitato - III Mistico intenso Jellantsje de Vries [viool]; Bobby Mitchell [piano] 7'39” 23.35 eigen opname Isidora Zebeljan: Dark velvet Julija Hartig [viool]; Reineke Broekhans [piano] 5'09” CD Noveselye - Housewarming (Challenge Classics CC 72822) Dmitri Sjostakovitsj: Prelude en Scherzo opus 11 ROctet 5'48” 23.50 eigen opname Lorre Trytten: Prelude Jacqueline voorheen Frederique [piano] 3'24”
Dass ihre Kinder zu berühmten Country-Stars wurden, hört man ihrer Musik wahrlich nicht an: Ruth Crawford-Seeger, Pionierin der amerikanischen Avantgarde, schreibt bereits Anfang der 30er Jahre ein radikales und bahnbrechendes Streichquartett - bis heute ein Geheimtipp. (Autor: Martin Zingsheim)
Synopsis Today's date in 1913 marks the birthday of American composer Vivian Fine in Chicago. At the tender age of five she became a scholarship piano student at the Chicago Musical College. As she grew up she became enthralled with the great composers and performers she heard at her regular visits to the Chicago Symphony. Vivian Fine initially intended to be a concert pianist, but theory studies with American composer Ruth Crawford Seeger nudged her towards composition. Vivian Fine became an avid follower of the emerging “Ultra-Modern” school of composers, including Henry Cowell, who proved to be one of her early mentors. Fine's debut as a composer came in Chicago when she was 16, and at 17 she moved to New York City to she studied composition with Roger Sessions and orchestration with George Szell. When Roger Sessions saw her sketches for her “Concertante for Piano and Orchestra” in 1944, he commented: “Now we are colleagues,” and George Szell praised its orchestration. Teaching became an important part of Fine's own professional life, first at New York University and Juilliard, and ultimately at Bennington College. Following a traffic accident in Vermont, Vivian Fine died in March of 2000, at the age of 86. Music Played in Today's Program Vivian Fine (1913 – 2000) — Concertante (Reiko Honsho, piano; Japan Philharmonic; Akeo Watanabe, cond.) CRI 692
Peggy Seeger's extraordinary musical career spans six and a half decades. Since the age of 17 she has been writing, performing and recording songs pretty much non-stop. At the age of 80 she won the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for Best New Song with her son Calum and earlier this year, at the age of nearly 86, she released her latest album. Peggy tells Michael Berkeley about her complex 30-year love affair with Ewan McColl, which was at the heart of the British folk revival; together they produced more than 40 albums, the revolutionary Radio Ballads for the BBC – and three very musical children. Peggy describes her surprise and joy at falling in love with a woman 30 years ago; she chooses contemporary a cappella music that reminds her of her wife, Irene. And we hear a piece of extraordinary complexity by Peggy's mother, Ruth Crawford Seeger, one of the most important modernist composers of the 20th century, whose early death changed the course of Peggy's life. Producer: Jane Greenwood A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 3
Synopsis Remember “Y2K” — the Millennial Year 2000? It was a time of extravagant hopes and dire predictions, as pundits and prophets weighed in as the 20th century hastened to its end. Composers weighed in, too. The American Composers Forum and the National Endowment for the Arts collaborated on a project entitled “Continental Harmony” which commissioned new musical works for public celebrations in communities large and small in all 50 states. The ambitious commissioning project was even endorsed by the Clinton White House. Premieres of many “Continental Harmony” commissions occurred on or near the Fourth of July in the year 2000. On today's date, for example, on the eve of the Fourth, the Richmond Symphony in Virginia premiered an orchestra work entitled “From Time to Time: Fantasias on Two Appalachian Folksongs” composed by Anthony Iannaccone, who explained the title of his new piece as follows: “The extraordinary beauty of Virginia and the resilient spirit of its people provided the inspiration for an extended tone poem based first on the folksong ‘Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair'... [and then] ‘Shenandoah,' presented in fragments... the orchestra extracts the folk melody and recasts it as a kind of Fourth of July fireworks display.” Music Played in Today's Program Anthony Iannaccone (b. 1943) From Time to Time Janacek Philharmonic; Anthony Iannaccone, cond. Albany 486 On This Day Births 1854 - Czech composer Leo Janácek, in Hukvaldy, Moravia 1878 - American song composer George M. Cohan, in Providence, R.I.; He mistakenly believed he was "born on the Fourth of July" as his popular song "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy" states; In 1978 the centennial of his birth was honored with a U.S. postage stamp issued on this date 1879 - French composer and conductor Philippe Gaubert, in Cahors 1901 - American composer and American folksong compiler, Ruth Crawford (Seeger), in East Liverpool, Ohio; She was the second wife of the eminent American composer and ethnomusicologist, Charles Seeger (1886-1979); Charles Seeger's son by his first marriage became the famous American folksinger, Pete Seeger 1926 - American composer Meyer Kupferman, in New York City Deaths 1966 - American composer, writer, and broadcaster, Deems Taylor, age 80, in New York City; For many years he was a broadcast commentator for the national broadcasts of both the New York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera (Two of his operas were staged at the Met); In 1967, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) established the Deems Taylor Awards for excellence in the fields of music criticism, journalism, and broadcasting; Composers Datebook won a Deems Taylor Award in 2000 1998 - English romantic composer George Lloyd, age 85 Premieres 1944 - Robert Wright & George Forest: musical "The Song of Norway" (based on the music of Norwegian composer Edward Grieg), during trial run in San Francisco; The musical opened in New York on August 21, 1944 1964 - Robert Ward: opera, "The Lady From Colorado," in Central City, Colorado; 1967 - Havergal Brian: Symphony No. 4 ("Das Siegeslied") in London; This symphony was composed in 1929 1976 - Hovhaness: Violin Concerto ("Ode to Freedom") at Wolf Trap, with André Kostelanetz conducting and Yehudi Menuhin the soloist. Others 1848 - American music publisher Theodore Presser is born in Pittsburgh; In 1883 he founded in Philadelphia the famous music monthly, "The Etude" (which discontinued publication in 1957), and shortly thereafter the Philadelphia-based Presser music publishing firm; He was also a co-founder of the Music Teachers National Association
Synopsis Remember “Y2K” — the Millennial Year 2000? It was a time of extravagant hopes and dire predictions, as pundits and prophets weighed in as the 20th century hastened to its end. Composers weighed in, too. The American Composers Forum and the National Endowment for the Arts collaborated on a project entitled “Continental Harmony” which commissioned new musical works for public celebrations in communities large and small in all 50 states. The ambitious commissioning project was even endorsed by the Clinton White House. Premieres of many “Continental Harmony” commissions occurred on or near the Fourth of July in the year 2000. On today's date, for example, on the eve of the Fourth, the Richmond Symphony in Virginia premiered an orchestra work entitled “From Time to Time: Fantasias on Two Appalachian Folksongs” composed by Anthony Iannaccone, who explained the title of his new piece as follows: “The extraordinary beauty of Virginia and the resilient spirit of its people provided the inspiration for an extended tone poem based first on the folksong ‘Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair'... [and then] ‘Shenandoah,' presented in fragments... the orchestra extracts the folk melody and recasts it as a kind of Fourth of July fireworks display.” Music Played in Today's Program Anthony Iannaccone (b. 1943) From Time to Time Janacek Philharmonic; Anthony Iannaccone, cond. Albany 486 On This Day Births 1854 - Czech composer Leo Janácek, in Hukvaldy, Moravia 1878 - American song composer George M. Cohan, in Providence, R.I.; He mistakenly believed he was "born on the Fourth of July" as his popular song "I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy" states; In 1978 the centennial of his birth was honored with a U.S. postage stamp issued on this date 1879 - French composer and conductor Philippe Gaubert, in Cahors 1901 - American composer and American folksong compiler, Ruth Crawford (Seeger), in East Liverpool, Ohio; She was the second wife of the eminent American composer and ethnomusicologist, Charles Seeger (1886-1979); Charles Seeger's son by his first marriage became the famous American folksinger, Pete Seeger 1926 - American composer Meyer Kupferman, in New York City Deaths 1966 - American composer, writer, and broadcaster, Deems Taylor, age 80, in New York City; For many years he was a broadcast commentator for the national broadcasts of both the New York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera (Two of his operas were staged at the Met); In 1967, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) established the Deems Taylor Awards for excellence in the fields of music criticism, journalism, and broadcasting; Composers Datebook won a Deems Taylor Award in 2000 1998 - English romantic composer George Lloyd, age 85 Premieres 1944 - Robert Wright & George Forest: musical "The Song of Norway" (based on the music of Norwegian composer Edward Grieg), during trial run in San Francisco; The musical opened in New York on August 21, 1944 1964 - Robert Ward: opera, "The Lady From Colorado," in Central City, Colorado; 1967 - Havergal Brian: Symphony No. 4 ("Das Siegeslied") in London; This symphony was composed in 1929 1976 - Hovhaness: Violin Concerto ("Ode to Freedom") at Wolf Trap, with André Kostelanetz conducting and Yehudi Menuhin the soloist. Others 1848 - American music publisher Theodore Presser is born in Pittsburgh; In 1883 he founded in Philadelphia the famous music monthly, "The Etude" (which discontinued publication in 1957), and shortly thereafter the Philadelphia-based Presser music publishing firm; He was also a co-founder of the Music Teachers National Association
Flutist and Chatham University faculty member, CMU grad, Zoe Sorrell presents American Awakening Friday November 20 at 4pm on the Chatham University YouTube channel. It's all-American music from Katherine Hoover (whose flute Zoe plays the concert on). Ruth Crawford Seeger, Valerie Coleman ,Margarete Zelenaia whose Solitude seems just right for the pandemic mood and at the end The Pied Piper of Harlem from Adolphus Hailstork. She speaks about the current awakening of music by women and African American composers and tells Jim Cunningham what she covers when she teaches ethnomusicology at Westminster College, what she recommends for reading during the Covid crisis, her favorites from finishing a degree in literature at Oberlin and why we always need a few more flutists.
durée : 00:25:05 - Ruth Crawford, ultramoderne ou populaire ? - par : Anne-Charlotte Rémond - Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) fut d'abord une compositrice avant-gardiste américaine, avant d'opérer dans les années 30 une bascule vers la musique populaire. Retour sur une artiste rare et plutôt méconnue. - réalisé par : Philippe Petit
This week’s program is just a tad different. Recently, the Library of Congress published a memoir of the Seeger Family by Archivist Anita M. Weber. This was this set’s inspiration. We'll hear some of the piano and symphonic music of Charles and Ruth Crawford Seeger, some of Ruth’s arrangements of folk tunes for piano and others performed by some of the Seeger Family. We’ll also hear pieces from Henry Cowell and Charles Ives, contemporaries of Ruth. So stretch your ears and hear an entirely different side to the music of the Seeger Family … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine. Episode #20-37: The Orchestral Seeger Host: Tom Druckenmiller Artist/”Song”/CD/Label Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways WM Stepp / “Bonaparte's Retreat” / Music of Kentucky / Yazoo Academy of St. Martin in the Fields-Marriner / “Cowell-Hymn and Fuging Tune No.10 for Oboe and Strings” / Barber Adagio et al / Argo Orchestra New England / “Ives-Putnam's Camp, Redding Connecticut” / The Orchestral Music of Charles Ives / Koch Reinbert De Leeuw / “R C Seeger-Piano Study in Mixed Accents” / Ruth Crawford Seeger Portrait Deutsche Grammophone Schonberg Ensemble / “Charles Seeger-John Hardy” / Ruth Crawford Seeger Portrait / Deutsche Grammophone Jenny Lin / “R C Seeger-Kaleidoscopic Changes on and Original Theme” / The World of Ruth Crawford Seeger / BIS Jay Ungar and Molly Mason / “Bonaparte's Retreat and Hoedown” / Harvest Home / Angel Penny Seeger / “The Old Cow Died” / Animal Folksongs for Children / Rounder Mike Seeger / “Stewball” / Animal Folksongs for Children / Rounder Sonya Cohen / “Little Rooster” / Animal Folksongs for Children / Rounder Jenny Lin / “Jumping the Rope” / The World of Ruth Crawford Seeger / BIS Jenny Lin / “Mrs Crow and Miss Wren Go for a Walk” / The World of Ruth Crawford Seeger / BIS Virginia Eskin / “Boll Weevil” / Music of Marion Bauer and Ruth Crawford Seeger / Albany Virginia Eskin / “What'll We Do With The Baby” / Music of Marion Bauer and Ruth Crawford Seeger Albany Virginia Eskin / “Cindy” / Music of Marion Bauer and Ruth Crawford Seeger / Albany George Winston / “Living in the Country” / Summer / Windham Hill Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways
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I'm pleased to welcome to the show Rebecca Smithorn, cover conductor and lecturer with the National Philharmonic. Rebecca is host of the NatPhil's YouTube series "Composers in Crisis" which takes a look at composers whose lives and art were transformed by times of global crisis. In our interview we talk about several composers in crisis: Beethoven, Ravel, Ruth Crawford-Seeger, John Corigliano, Undine Smith Moore, and a good ol' good one, Louis Armstrong, who Duke Ellington said was "Born poor, died rich, and never hurt anyone in between." "Composers in Crisis" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3agUbwO72pA&list=PLtZH2-QfYm4ypSuSDPAyl13znMQZPv24S https://rebeccasmithorn.com --------------- Try nkoda for free! All the digital sheet music you could ever need right on one app. I use it for my own practice, in lessons, and when I just want something fun to play on the piano or guitar! https://www.nkoda.com ----------------- Subscribe on iTunes and give us a 5-star review! download our app! Visit and like our Facebook page! https://www.facebook.com/thegreatcomposerspodcast/?ref=bookmarks Works heard in this episode: Ravel - "Le Tombeau de Couperin" mvt. 1, Prelude, played by Janet Seitzer https://musopen.org/music/4728-le-tombeau-de-couperin/ mvt. 6, Toccata
This week we hear works by William Grant Still, John Knowles Paine, John Philip Sousa, Roy Harris, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Don Gillis, Dominick Argento, and Michael Daugherty. 142 Minutes – Week of June 29, 2020
Welcome to Part 1 of Episode 13, "The Magic of Tone." This episode focuses on French-American composer, painter, poet, prolific author, and renowned astrologer, Dane Rudhyar (1895-1985). Coming to America from Paris in 1916, Rudhyar’s intuitively dissonant Theosophically inspired music and philosophy would influence numerous composers, including Ruth Crawford Seeger, Katherine Ruth Heyman, and Henry Cowell. Painting throughout his life, Rudhyar was a member of the Transcendentalist Painting Group in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Meanwhile he would emerge as one of the most influential astrologers in American history and a foundational figure in the New Age movement.
Welcome to Part 2 of Episode 13, "The Magic of Tone." This episode focuses on French-American composer, painter, poet, prolific author, and renowned astrologer, Dane Rudhyar (1895-1985). Coming to America from Paris in 1916, Rudhyar’s intuitively dissonant Theosophically inspired music and philosophy would influence numerous composers, including Ruth Crawford Seeger, Katherine Ruth Heyman, and Henry Cowell. Painting throughout his life, Rudhyar was a member of the Transcendentalist Painting Group in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Meanwhile he would emerge as one of the most influential astrologers in American history and a foundational figure in the New Age movement.
The story of popular entertainment in American immigrant communities is only just beginning to be told. Chinatown Opera Theater in North America by Nancy Yunhwa Rao from University of Illinois Press (2017) addresses the history of Cantonese Opera performed in Chinatowns in cities across North America with a primary focus on San Francisco, New York City, and Vancouver during the 1920s. Using a wealth of archival material, including extensive records from the U.S. Immigration Service, Rao provides an enormous amount of information about the theaters, companies, performers, and repertoire of this operatic genre. She contextualizes the performance of Cantonese Opera within the cultural life of Chinese communities, explains the print materials and recordings that circulated the music, and details the significant impact that exclusionary governmental immigration policies had on this theatrical tradition and Chinese immigrants in Canada and the United States. Rao’s book not only offers information about this performance tradition that has never been published before, it also provides a model for the kind of work that still needs to be done on musical and theatrical entertainment in many other ethnic communities in North America. Chinatown Opera Theater in North America has been awarded the 2019 Association for Asian-American Studies Performance and Media Studies Book Award, the Irving Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music for the best book published in 2017, and the 2018 Music in American Culture Award from the American Musicological Society. Nancy Yunhwa Rao is a professor of music at Rutgers University where she is the Head of Music Theory. One of the leading scholars in the study of Chinese American music, her work has appeared in many journals including the Cambridge Opera Journal, the Journal of the Society for American Music, and Music Theory Spectrum. She has received an NEH Research Fellowship and ACLS Scholar in China Fellowship to support her work on the intersections between China and the West, particularly in contemporary Chinese music. In 2007, she won the Irving Lowens Article Award from the Society for American Music for an essay on the music of Ruth Crawford Seeger. Kristen M. Turner, Ph.D. is a lecturer at North Carolina State University in the music department. Her work centers on American musical culture at the turn of the twentieth century and has been published in several journals and essay collections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The story of popular entertainment in American immigrant communities is only just beginning to be told. Chinatown Opera Theater in North America by Nancy Yunhwa Rao from University of Illinois Press (2017) addresses the history of Cantonese Opera performed in Chinatowns in cities across North America with a primary focus on San Francisco, New York City, and Vancouver during the 1920s. Using a wealth of archival material, including extensive records from the U.S. Immigration Service, Rao provides an enormous amount of information about the theaters, companies, performers, and repertoire of this operatic genre. She contextualizes the performance of Cantonese Opera within the cultural life of Chinese communities, explains the print materials and recordings that circulated the music, and details the significant impact that exclusionary governmental immigration policies had on this theatrical tradition and Chinese immigrants in Canada and the United States. Rao’s book not only offers information about this performance tradition that has never been published before, it also provides a model for the kind of work that still needs to be done on musical and theatrical entertainment in many other ethnic communities in North America. Chinatown Opera Theater in North America has been awarded the 2019 Association for Asian-American Studies Performance and Media Studies Book Award, the Irving Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music for the best book published in 2017, and the 2018 Music in American Culture Award from the American Musicological Society. Nancy Yunhwa Rao is a professor of music at Rutgers University where she is the Head of Music Theory. One of the leading scholars in the study of Chinese American music, her work has appeared in many journals including the Cambridge Opera Journal, the Journal of the Society for American Music, and Music Theory Spectrum. She has received an NEH Research Fellowship and ACLS Scholar in China Fellowship to support her work on the intersections between China and the West, particularly in contemporary Chinese music. In 2007, she won the Irving Lowens Article Award from the Society for American Music for an essay on the music of Ruth Crawford Seeger. Kristen M. Turner, Ph.D. is a lecturer at North Carolina State University in the music department. Her work centers on American musical culture at the turn of the twentieth century and has been published in several journals and essay collections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The story of popular entertainment in American immigrant communities is only just beginning to be told. Chinatown Opera Theater in North America by Nancy Yunhwa Rao from University of Illinois Press (2017) addresses the history of Cantonese Opera performed in Chinatowns in cities across North America with a primary focus on San Francisco, New York City, and Vancouver during the 1920s. Using a wealth of archival material, including extensive records from the U.S. Immigration Service, Rao provides an enormous amount of information about the theaters, companies, performers, and repertoire of this operatic genre. She contextualizes the performance of Cantonese Opera within the cultural life of Chinese communities, explains the print materials and recordings that circulated the music, and details the significant impact that exclusionary governmental immigration policies had on this theatrical tradition and Chinese immigrants in Canada and the United States. Rao’s book not only offers information about this performance tradition that has never been published before, it also provides a model for the kind of work that still needs to be done on musical and theatrical entertainment in many other ethnic communities in North America. Chinatown Opera Theater in North America has been awarded the 2019 Association for Asian-American Studies Performance and Media Studies Book Award, the Irving Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music for the best book published in 2017, and the 2018 Music in American Culture Award from the American Musicological Society. Nancy Yunhwa Rao is a professor of music at Rutgers University where she is the Head of Music Theory. One of the leading scholars in the study of Chinese American music, her work has appeared in many journals including the Cambridge Opera Journal, the Journal of the Society for American Music, and Music Theory Spectrum. She has received an NEH Research Fellowship and ACLS Scholar in China Fellowship to support her work on the intersections between China and the West, particularly in contemporary Chinese music. In 2007, she won the Irving Lowens Article Award from the Society for American Music for an essay on the music of Ruth Crawford Seeger. Kristen M. Turner, Ph.D. is a lecturer at North Carolina State University in the music department. Her work centers on American musical culture at the turn of the twentieth century and has been published in several journals and essay collections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The story of popular entertainment in American immigrant communities is only just beginning to be told. Chinatown Opera Theater in North America by Nancy Yunhwa Rao from University of Illinois Press (2017) addresses the history of Cantonese Opera performed in Chinatowns in cities across North America with a primary focus on San Francisco, New York City, and Vancouver during the 1920s. Using a wealth of archival material, including extensive records from the U.S. Immigration Service, Rao provides an enormous amount of information about the theaters, companies, performers, and repertoire of this operatic genre. She contextualizes the performance of Cantonese Opera within the cultural life of Chinese communities, explains the print materials and recordings that circulated the music, and details the significant impact that exclusionary governmental immigration policies had on this theatrical tradition and Chinese immigrants in Canada and the United States. Rao’s book not only offers information about this performance tradition that has never been published before, it also provides a model for the kind of work that still needs to be done on musical and theatrical entertainment in many other ethnic communities in North America. Chinatown Opera Theater in North America has been awarded the 2019 Association for Asian-American Studies Performance and Media Studies Book Award, the Irving Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music for the best book published in 2017, and the 2018 Music in American Culture Award from the American Musicological Society. Nancy Yunhwa Rao is a professor of music at Rutgers University where she is the Head of Music Theory. One of the leading scholars in the study of Chinese American music, her work has appeared in many journals including the Cambridge Opera Journal, the Journal of the Society for American Music, and Music Theory Spectrum. She has received an NEH Research Fellowship and ACLS Scholar in China Fellowship to support her work on the intersections between China and the West, particularly in contemporary Chinese music. In 2007, she won the Irving Lowens Article Award from the Society for American Music for an essay on the music of Ruth Crawford Seeger. Kristen M. Turner, Ph.D. is a lecturer at North Carolina State University in the music department. Her work centers on American musical culture at the turn of the twentieth century and has been published in several journals and essay collections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The story of popular entertainment in American immigrant communities is only just beginning to be told. Chinatown Opera Theater in North America by Nancy Yunhwa Rao from University of Illinois Press (2017) addresses the history of Cantonese Opera performed in Chinatowns in cities across North America with a primary focus on San Francisco, New York City, and Vancouver during the 1920s. Using a wealth of archival material, including extensive records from the U.S. Immigration Service, Rao provides an enormous amount of information about the theaters, companies, performers, and repertoire of this operatic genre. She contextualizes the performance of Cantonese Opera within the cultural life of Chinese communities, explains the print materials and recordings that circulated the music, and details the significant impact that exclusionary governmental immigration policies had on this theatrical tradition and Chinese immigrants in Canada and the United States. Rao’s book not only offers information about this performance tradition that has never been published before, it also provides a model for the kind of work that still needs to be done on musical and theatrical entertainment in many other ethnic communities in North America. Chinatown Opera Theater in North America has been awarded the 2019 Association for Asian-American Studies Performance and Media Studies Book Award, the Irving Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music for the best book published in 2017, and the 2018 Music in American Culture Award from the American Musicological Society. Nancy Yunhwa Rao is a professor of music at Rutgers University where she is the Head of Music Theory. One of the leading scholars in the study of Chinese American music, her work has appeared in many journals including the Cambridge Opera Journal, the Journal of the Society for American Music, and Music Theory Spectrum. She has received an NEH Research Fellowship and ACLS Scholar in China Fellowship to support her work on the intersections between China and the West, particularly in contemporary Chinese music. In 2007, she won the Irving Lowens Article Award from the Society for American Music for an essay on the music of Ruth Crawford Seeger. Kristen M. Turner, Ph.D. is a lecturer at North Carolina State University in the music department. Her work centers on American musical culture at the turn of the twentieth century and has been published in several journals and essay collections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The story of popular entertainment in American immigrant communities is only just beginning to be told. Chinatown Opera Theater in North America by Nancy Yunhwa Rao from University of Illinois Press (2017) addresses the history of Cantonese Opera performed in Chinatowns in cities across North America with a primary focus on San Francisco, New York City, and Vancouver during the 1920s. Using a wealth of archival material, including extensive records from the U.S. Immigration Service, Rao provides an enormous amount of information about the theaters, companies, performers, and repertoire of this operatic genre. She contextualizes the performance of Cantonese Opera within the cultural life of Chinese communities, explains the print materials and recordings that circulated the music, and details the significant impact that exclusionary governmental immigration policies had on this theatrical tradition and Chinese immigrants in Canada and the United States. Rao’s book not only offers information about this performance tradition that has never been published before, it also provides a model for the kind of work that still needs to be done on musical and theatrical entertainment in many other ethnic communities in North America. Chinatown Opera Theater in North America has been awarded the 2019 Association for Asian-American Studies Performance and Media Studies Book Award, the Irving Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music for the best book published in 2017, and the 2018 Music in American Culture Award from the American Musicological Society. Nancy Yunhwa Rao is a professor of music at Rutgers University where she is the Head of Music Theory. One of the leading scholars in the study of Chinese American music, her work has appeared in many journals including the Cambridge Opera Journal, the Journal of the Society for American Music, and Music Theory Spectrum. She has received an NEH Research Fellowship and ACLS Scholar in China Fellowship to support her work on the intersections between China and the West, particularly in contemporary Chinese music. In 2007, she won the Irving Lowens Article Award from the Society for American Music for an essay on the music of Ruth Crawford Seeger. Kristen M. Turner, Ph.D. is a lecturer at North Carolina State University in the music department. Her work centers on American musical culture at the turn of the twentieth century and has been published in several journals and essay collections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The story of popular entertainment in American immigrant communities is only just beginning to be told. Chinatown Opera Theater in North America by Nancy Yunhwa Rao from University of Illinois Press (2017) addresses the history of Cantonese Opera performed in Chinatowns in cities across North America with a primary focus on San Francisco, New York City, and Vancouver during the 1920s. Using a wealth of archival material, including extensive records from the U.S. Immigration Service, Rao provides an enormous amount of information about the theaters, companies, performers, and repertoire of this operatic genre. She contextualizes the performance of Cantonese Opera within the cultural life of Chinese communities, explains the print materials and recordings that circulated the music, and details the significant impact that exclusionary governmental immigration policies had on this theatrical tradition and Chinese immigrants in Canada and the United States. Rao’s book not only offers information about this performance tradition that has never been published before, it also provides a model for the kind of work that still needs to be done on musical and theatrical entertainment in many other ethnic communities in North America. Chinatown Opera Theater in North America has been awarded the 2019 Association for Asian-American Studies Performance and Media Studies Book Award, the Irving Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music for the best book published in 2017, and the 2018 Music in American Culture Award from the American Musicological Society. Nancy Yunhwa Rao is a professor of music at Rutgers University where she is the Head of Music Theory. One of the leading scholars in the study of Chinese American music, her work has appeared in many journals including the Cambridge Opera Journal, the Journal of the Society for American Music, and Music Theory Spectrum. She has received an NEH Research Fellowship and ACLS Scholar in China Fellowship to support her work on the intersections between China and the West, particularly in contemporary Chinese music. In 2007, she won the Irving Lowens Article Award from the Society for American Music for an essay on the music of Ruth Crawford Seeger. Kristen M. Turner, Ph.D. is a lecturer at North Carolina State University in the music department. Her work centers on American musical culture at the turn of the twentieth century and has been published in several journals and essay collections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Te gast vanavond: Thea Derks. Naar aanleiding van haar boek 'Een os op het dak' vertelt ze over belangrijke stromingen in de 20e en 21e eeuwse muziek. Met muziek van Marlon Hernandez, Lili Boulanger, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Arvo Pärt en Kate Moore.
Sam and Tim dissect Ruth Crawford Seeger's seminal String Quartet 1931, have a chat with tenor Hiroshi Amako and discuss the dress rehearsal for Die Walküre with Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic. PLUS – operatic divas, musical magic roundabouts and how ABBA stole from Wagner.Music Credits:Ruth Crawford Seeger, String Quartet 1931 performed by The Playground EnsembleEpic Trailer Music from Mattia CupelliFrank Bridge, Come to Me in My Dreams performed by Hiroshi Amako and Michael PandyaRichard Wagner, Die Walküre ‘Ride of Walkyries' performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski in 1934Éric Serra, ‘Diva Dance' cover by Laura Workman McMurtreyJean Sibelius, Symphony No. 5 Final MovementFollow us here:instagram.com/classicalpod/ twitter.com/ClassicalPod facebook.com/ClassicalPod/Here's the website for the Amici Voices:https://amicivoices.com/Seeger, String Quartet 1931 performed by The Playground Ensemble:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqz9Ch14MpwLaura Workman McMurtrey sings ‘Diva Dance':https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgo0CDL6bd0Hiroshi Amako and Michael Pandya perform Come to Me in My Dreams:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tubl-CtoNAs
Welcome to Episode 7, "A Veil of Sound." Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) is a pioneering composer from the early 20th century, and the first female composer to win a Guggenheim fellowship. Her early experimental work was inspired by the esoteric philosophies of Theosophy, Transcendentalism, and Hinduism. In these works, dissonance was used to evoke what she called a “spiritual concept.” To do so she radicalized serial techniques, developed her own “prayer language,” and pursued a mystical aesthetic, before embracing American folk music in the late 1930s. She went on to inspire the American folk revival of the 1960s, but will forever be the queen of American ultramodernism.
Iarla O Lionaird meets folk singer Peggy Seeger at her home in Oxford to explore her life's journey in song and song composition. Peggy talks of her childhood growing up under the influence of her older half brother Peter Seeger and in a home where legendary singers like Lead Belly and Woody Guthrie would visit to meet her parents, song collectors and composers Charles Seeger and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Vocal Chords is the intellectual property of Athena Media Ltd and no production use can be made of the podcasts without the direct consent of the producers. www.vocalchords.ie
For this episode we talk with Sara Anderson and Heather Anderson about their non-traditional family. We discuss their journey, the struggles that come along with living in the South and how their experiences can help others. Our Who's that Lady (from history)? highlights the life and accomplishments of Ruth Crawford Seeger.
It was composer pitted against composer: uptown vs. downtown, tonal vs. atonal, left brain vs right brain, and these musicians were NOT pulling any punches. Composers were antagonizing each other, questioning each other's validity, and bad-mouthing one another; it was like the second half of the 20th century was when Western Music went through middle school, and it was brutal! “If you weren't being a constructivist composer, if the music wasn't indeed about its own structure, and its own structure wasn't complicated, then you were a pariah, you were rejected. You didn’t get tenure. You didn’t get a job.” That’s Robert Sirota - Nadia’s Dad - one of many composers who came of age in the midst of this feud and struggled - for years - to find a voice. On this episode of Meet the Composer, we unravel one of the most contentious periods in classical music’s history. How did this fight begin? How did it play out? Who were the contenders? We hear from composers on both sides of this battle, and discover how, on all ends of the aesthetic spectrum, we can find value in differences. Heard a piece of music you loved? Discover it here! 0:00—The Yorks: Love Without Reason, written by Barry Flicker2:14—Robert Sirota: Pange Lingua Sonata | Buy 3:30—Robert Sirota: Pange Lingua Sonata | Buy 5:23—Philip Glass: Music in Twelve Parts | Listen 6:31—Ruth Crawford Seeger: Study in Mixed Accents | Listen 7:08—David Lang: orpheus over and under | Listen 8:53—Richard Wagner: Overture from Tristan und Isolde | Listen 9:36—Julia Ward Howe: Battle Hymn of the Republic | Watch 11:27—Arnold Schoenberg: Klavierstüke, Op. 33 | Listen12:04—Pierre Boulez: Piano Sonata No. 2 | Listen 13:05—Pierre Boulez: Sur Incises | Listen 13:47—Lewis Nielsen: Oerknal! "...the crisis of conscience..." | Listen 14:50—Charles Wuorinen: Two Part Symphony | Listen 15:57—David Lang: the so-called laws of nature: part III | Listen 17:59—Jr. Walker and the All-Stars: Shotgun | Listen 18:47—Bob Dylan: Maggie's Farm | Buy 19:09—Elliott Carter: String Quartet No. 2 | Listen 19:45—Steve Reich: Violin Phase | Listen 21:05—Elliott Carter: String Quartet No. 2 | Listen 21:16—Charles Wuorinen: Second Piano Quintet | Listen 22:10—John Adams: Phrygian Gates | Listen 23:31—John Adams: Death of Klinghoffer | Listen 24:08—David Lang: child, II. sweet air | Listen 25:21—David Lang: almost all the time | Listen 28:53—Brian Ferneyhough: La chute d'Icare | Listen 30:58—Brian Ferneyhough: no time (at all) | Listen 32:09—Brian Ferneyhough: Superscriptio | Listen 33:36—J.S. Bach: Invention No. 15 in B minor | Listen 34:26—J.S. Bach: Mass in B minor, "Crucifixus" | Listen 38:49—David Lang: breathless | Listen
När den amerikanska tonsättaren Ruth Crawford Seeger är mellan 29 och 31 år komponerar hon de verk som långt senare ger henne en rättmätig plats i musikhistorien som en nyskapande tonsättare. Ruth Crawford föds i Ohio 1901 och utvecklar en kompositionsstil som ingen annan i världen har gjort tidigare. Efter ett Guggenheim-stipendium i Europa reser hon hem och gifter sig med den 14 år äldre musikvetaren Charles Seeger. Hon föder fyra barn: Mike, Peggy, Penny och Barbara och tar även hand om tre barn från Charles Seegers första äktenskap, bl a den legendariske folksångaren Pete Seeger. Även Mike och Peggy Seeger är välkända folkmusiker.Det trista är att hon samtidigt slutar tonsätta sin egen musik. När hon dör 1953, endast 52 år gammal, har hon just börjat komponera igen. Det gör tragiken ännu större och kvinnan Ruth Crawford Seeger en utmaning att försöka förstå.Hennes man gör först klart sitt förakt för kvinnliga tonsättare: "Din lilla kvinnosjäl som du kuvar genom att vara den mest manlige av konstnärer - musikern". För sina barn förklarar Charles Seeger barn att "kvinnor inte kan komponera symfonier".Senare blir dock Charles Seeger Ruth Crawfords starkaste stöd och de arbetar intensivt tillsammans med idéunderlaget till hennes kompositioner. Ruth Crawford går inte sällan emot hans teoretiska estetik. Trots att han varnar henne för att skriva för stråkar ger hon sig i kast med den stråkkvartett som kommer att bli hennes främsta komposition.Ett annat märkligt och vackert stycke, banbrytande med sitt pulserande kluster, är To A Kind God av den då 29-åriga Ruth Crawford. Hon tonsatte stycket redan 1930 - 20 år innan denna teknik skulle få sitt genombrott i Tyskland i det vi idag kallar en fullständig serialism. Verket skriver Ruth Crawford faktiskt i Berlin som den första kvinnliga tonsättaren att erhålla ett Guggenheim-stipendium. Först 60 år senare får To A Kind God sin urpremiär, nämligen 1994 vid Aldeburghfestivalen.Vad är det då som gör detta stycke musik så enastående för sin tid? Jo, själv kallade hon det dissonant musik. Ruth Crawford hade aldrig hört österländsk musik, t e x buddistiska munkars meditationer, men hade fått dem beskrivna av Charles Seeger som "ett komplext dissonant ljud-flor". Hon skriver här en slags världsmusik och hon vill använda ord ur någon engelsk översättning av den indiska Bhagavad Ghita, men hon finner ingen och löser uppgiften genom att skapa egna ord. Hon uppfinner både konsonanter och vokaler. I To A Kind God skriver Ruth Crawford in 12 röster, en för varje ton i den västerländska skalan, och i styckets klimax hörs alla tonerna samtidigt. En slags sammansatt mass-tonart.I ett brev till tonsättarkollegan Vivian Fine samma år som hon skrev To A Kind God - 1930 alltså - uttrycker Ruth Crawford sin besvikelse över romantik, neoklassicism, amerikansk mainstream-symfonisk jazz och tolvtonsättaren Arnold Schönbergs cerebrala övningar: "Här i Europa hoppas jag finna en stor tonsättare som frodas ur en mylla av både konsonans och dissonans. En mäktig musik som inte enbart är torrt intellektuell utan även bär en djup enkelhet - en känsla om man vill använda det ordet - som knyter an till vanliga människor lika mycket som till de intellektuella".Denna dröm-tonsättare skulle bli Ruth Crawford själv som med några få verk, komponerade mellan 1930 och 1932, skriver in sig i musikhistorien, inte enbart som en av USA:s främsta tonsättare utan även på en central plats inom hela 1900-talets musikaliska litteratur. Stråkkvartetten från 1931 räknas som hennes mästerverk.Sin tidiga musik beskrev Ruth Crawford som ett "träd av ljud och klangfärger". Nu ville hon ha horisontella linjer, "reda ut tilltrasslade nystan och finna en tråd i en hög av rotlösa, trädlösa löv". I formen bäddade hon in rika mönster vilka hon jämförde med komplext designade persiska mattor. Men liksom det i dessa mattor vävdes in små defekter och förskjutningar komponerade Ruth Crawford in en och annan asymmetri. Hon var noga med att beskriva skillnaden mellan sin "dissonanta kontrapunktik" och den samtida europeiska serialismen. Hon listade sina ideal: skriv klara melodiska linjer, undvik ihopklibbande rytmer, använd rytmisk självständighet mellan delarna, skapa en känsla av tonalt och rytmiskt centrum och experimentera med varierande typer av dissonanser.Hennes mor, Clara Crawford, hade tagit Ruth till hennes första pianolektion och blev hennes starkaste supporter och tuffaste kritiker. Modern tillhörde den tidiga vågen av feminister som strävade efter, och slutligen uppnådde, ekonomisk oavhängighet. Ruths mor var pionjär - en av de första kvinnliga stenograferna och var t ex irriterad över att Robert Schumann "blev bossen i huset när Clara Wieck gift sig med honom".Men Crawfords levde i en tid då det, precis som under Clara Schumanns liv - 70 år tidigare - ansågs att "den känslomässiga delen av kvinnan stred mot den kreativa processen i musikskapandet". Ruth Crawford kallade sig aldrig någonsin för kvinnlig tonsättare och var inte medlem i The Society of American Women Composers. Kollegan Charles Ives skrev att "en god dissonans är som en man". Och tidigt ansåg kritiker att hennes musik hade manliga kvaliteter: djärv och viril. Men i sin dagbok skrev hon tidigt ner sin mammas råd (Mamas Advice): "dölj alltid dina stygga tanker, var stolt över din blyghet och se till att andra har det bra i ditt sällskap, lägg dig inte i grannens business, vi lever för andras skull och ta hänsyn till andras känslor." I dagböckerna beskriver Ruth Crawford "brännande, irriterande och otåliga" känslor. Senare sina depressioner.Ruth Crawford föredrog målaren Corot framför den idylliske ljusskildraren Monet. Hon skriver: "I en målning måste finnas balans mellan skugga och sol; inte enbart lyses mörkret upp av ljuset utan genom denna kontrast bestrålar mörkret även ljuset."Music for Small Orchestra från 1926 skall spelas långsamt, grubblande. Med tritonus- och kvartsintervall relaterade till Scriabin och fagott-fragment ur Stravinskijs Våroffer. Hennes vän, tonsättaren och astrologen Dane Rudyar, talade om symboliken i en enda ton "som en levande cell där makrokosmos speglas i mikrokosmos; en enda cell som kan avslöja alla universums mysterier". Från österländsk musik stammade denna idé. Och Ruth Crawford anammade det esoteriska och mytiska. I Chicago upplevde hon ett andligt och spirituellt svärmeri för sin pianolärarinna Djane Lavoie Hertz och 27 år gammal dedicerade hon sina pianopreludier till "Djane, min inspiration." Genom henne kom Ruth Crawford i närmare kontakt med ryske tonsättaren Scrabins teosofi, mysticism och spiritualism, som fungerade som ett slags pre-freudianskt sätt att få kontakt med sitt undermedvetna. Tyvärr uppfördes aldrig Music for Small Orchestra under Ruth Crawfords livstid.1928 var Ruth Crawford med och startade Chicagoavdelningen av International Society for Contemporary Music och hennes Three Songs med texter Carl Sandburg representerade USA 1933 vid ISCM:s festival i Amsterdam.Ruth Crawford klipper sitt hår kort, flyttar till New York och inleder en tät vänskap med tonsättaren Marion Bauer, den första amerikanska eleven hos Nadja Boulanger i Paris. Marion Bauer stöttar henne och gör klart för Ruth Craword vilken stor talang hon är. "Min kära underbara Marion" börjar ett brev. "Marion har befriat mig", ett annat. "Jag skriver igen och jag komponerar". Med Marion diskuterar hon skapande och sexualitet. Ruth är oskuld och lever i celibat trots att hon närmar sig de 30. "Visst kan du sublimera", säger Marion, "men den fysiska akten kan fullbordas på ett vackert sätt, som en symbol."Senare funderar Ruth på arten av henne och Marions relation. I Berlin hade Ruth upplevt den helt öppet homosexuella kulturen under Weimarrepublikens sista skälvande dagar och nätter och skriver: "Med Marion var det som att bli förälskad. Vår förbindelse hade kommit mycket nära ett erotiskt uttryck, men vi delade på oss istället för att starta detta lesbiska projekt."I New York bosätter sig Ruth på gångavstånd till Carnegie Hall och Metropolitanoperan. Hon kommer i kontakt med den nyaste musiken av Copeland, Gershwin, Varèse, Duke Ellington och Bessie Smith. Hon går på konserter med verk av Rachmaninov, Hindemith, Schönberg, Brahms, Wagner, Bach, Béla Bártok, Carl Ruggles och mannen som uppfann en av de första synthesizrarna - Leon Theremin.Snart engagerar sig hennes make Charles Seeger i "musiken som ett vapen i klasskampen" och förlorar intresset för modernismen. Han komponerar revolutionär musik, antar pseudonymet Carl Sands och är mest på marxistiska möten. För Ruth är det omöjligt att ersätta deras tidiga musikaliska intimitet med den proletära kulturrörelsen. Hon förlorar sin musa. Hon komponerar inte längre.1952 skriver Ruth Crawford Seeger sitt sista verk, Suite for Wind Quintet, vars inledande ostinato återkallar början på andra satsen av det verk hon 1932 brände originalnoterna till: Sonat för violin och piano. Ruth Crawford Seeger insjuknar och dör i magcancer precis som hennes mamma gjort. Och resten är en öronbedövande tystnad.Programmet är inspirerat av Judith Tick's stora biografi Ruth Crawford Seeger - A Composer's Search for American Music från 1997. Judith Tick är professor emerita vid Northeastern University i Boston, USA. Musiklista:Rose, Rose and Up She RisesRuth Crawford, sång White MoonRuth CrawfordDawn Upshaw, sopranMargo Garret, pianoNONESUCH 7559 79364 2 To A Kind GodRuth CrawfordAmanda Pitt, sopranJeanette Ager, AltJames Wood, dirigentNew London Chamber Choir, damkörRuth Crawford Seeger: PortraitDeutsche Grammophon 449 925-2, 1997 String Quartet 1931, Sats 3, AndanteRuth CrawfordInstrumentalister ur Schönberg EnsembleRuth Crawford Seeger: PortraitDeutsche Grammophon 449 925-2, 1997 Andante for StringsRuth CrawfordChristoph Von Dohnanyi, dirigentCleveland Orchestra String Quartet 1931, Sats 1 Rubato AssaiRuth CrawfordInstrumentalister ur Schönberg EnsembleRuth Crawford Seeger: PortraitDeutsche Grammophon 449 925-2, 1997 Music for Small Orchestra IIRuth CrawfordOliver Knussen, dirigentMedlemmar Ur Schönberg EnsembleRuth Crawford Seeger: PortraitDeutsche Grammophon 449 925-2, 1997 Rat Riddles, ur "Three Songs" med texter Carl SandburgRuth CrawfordOliver Knussen, dirigentLucy Shelton, sopranInstrumentalister ur Schönberg EnsembleRuth Crawford Seeger: PortraitDeutsche Grammophon 449 925-2, 1997 To An Angel, för kvinnokör och sopransoloRuth CrawfordAmanda Pitt, sopranJeanette Ager, AltJames Wood, dirigentNew London Chamber Choir, damkörRuth Crawford Seeger: PortraitDeutsche Grammophon 449 925-2, 1997 Piano Study in Mixed AccentsRuth CrawfordReinbert De Leeuw, PianoRuth Crawford Seeger: PortraitDeutsche Grammophon 449 925-2, 1997 String Quartet 1931, sats 4Ruth CrawfordInstrumentalister ur Schönberg EnsembleRuth Crawford Seeger: PortraitDeutsche Grammophon 449 925-2, 1997 Suite for Wind Quintet, sats 1 (Svit för blåsarensemble)Ruth CrawfordInstrumentalister ur Schönberg EnsembleRuth Crawford Seeger: PortraitDeutsche Grammophon 449 925-2, 1997
Biographer Bill Malone explores the life and musical contributions of folk artist Mike Seeger, son of musicologists Charles and Ruth Crawford Seeger and brother of folksingers Pete and Peggy Seeger. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5985
"Kvinnor kan inte komponera" och ultramodernism fnös 20-talets manliga recensenter i USA om Ruth Crawford Seeger - modernist, mystiker, medborgare och folkmusikarrangör. Ruth Crawford Seeger var ingen armbågskvinna. Men seg, en mystiker med Fjärran Östern-profil. Skällsorden skrämde inte bort henne. Men den katastrofala Wall Street-kraschen 1929, fick henne att byta spår till folkmusikarrangemang skrivna med tanke på de drabbade arbets- och hemlösa. Men det var inre oro, självkritik och den älskade fyrbarnsfamiljen som fick Ruth att under många år offra den egna musiken. Femtio år gammal gjorde hon comeback. Efter en komposition slog cancern till. Ingemar von Heijne följer spåren efter Ruth Crawford Seeger - modernist, mystiker, medborgare och folkmusikarrangör.
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