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    Ruth Crawford Seeger (born Ruth Porter Crawford; July 3, 1901 – November 18, 1953) was an American composer and musicologist. Her music heralded the emerging...
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    Ruth Crawford Seeger's String Quartet (1931) is "regarded as one of the finest modernist works of the genre". It was funded by the Guggenheim Foundation...
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    the composer Ruth Crawford Seeger, father of the American folk singers Pete Seeger (1919–2014), Peggy Seeger (b. 1935), and Mike Seeger (1933–2009); and...
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    Pete Seeger and American folk music". The New Yorker. pp. 44–53. Wilkinson 2009, p. 43. Dunaway 2008, p. 32. See Judith Tick, Ruth Crawford Seeger: a Composer's...
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    and non-Western music. His mother, Ruth Crawford Seeger, was a composer. His eldest half-brother, Charles Seeger III, was a radio astronomer, and his...
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  • Ruth Seeger may refer to: Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953), American modernist composer Ruth Taubert Seeger (1924–2014), American athlete and coach This...
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    1989. Seeger's father was Charles Seeger (1886–1979), a folklorist and musicologist; her mother was Seeger's second wife, Ruth Porter Crawford (1901–1953)...
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  • Johanna Beyer (category Pupils of Ruth Crawford Seeger)
    In the late 1920s or early thirties she began studying with Ruth Crawford, Charles Seeger, and Dane Rudhyar and in 1934 took Henry Cowell's percussion...
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  • Messiaen, Arvo Pärt, Walter Piston, Ned Rorem, Alfred Schnittke, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Igor Stravinsky used serialism only in...
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  • performed from a book of the same name, published by their mother, Ruth Crawford Seeger, (Doubleday & Co., 1953). The book cites the Archive of American...
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    Song: USA. With John A. Lomax. Piano accompaniment by Charles and Ruth Crawford Seeger. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pierce, c.1947. Republished as Best Loved...
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  • included in Folk Song, U.S.A. by John A. and Alan Lomax, Charles Seeger and Ruth Crawford Seeger (Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1947), pp. 310–311. The first known...
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  • Peggy Seeger, and the mother was the composer Ruth Crawford Seeger. Soon after this, Cotten again began working as a maid, this time for Ruth Crawford Seeger...
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    Musical Modernism, 99. For a complete look at Crawford's life and career, see Judith Tick, Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music (New...
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  • American folk musician Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953), a modernist composer and an American folk music specialist Mike Seeger (1933–2009), American folk...
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    stepmother, noted modernist composer Ruth Crawford Seeger, and would have heard Bumgarner perform there. Seeger has credited Bumgarner as his inspiration...
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    of Congress’s 2019 National Recording Registry. In 1932, composer Ruth Crawford Seeger wrote the song "Sacco, Vanzetti" on commission from the Society of...
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  • (1900–1996) Elinor Remick Warren (1900–1991) Alfredo Antonini (1901–1983) Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953) Harry Partch (1901–1974) John Wesley Work III (1901–1967)...
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  • Recordings, 2012 The Sounding Joy: Christmas Songs In and Out of the Ruth Crawford Seeger Songbook - Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2013 Turn Turn Turn with...
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    ultramodernist movement of American composers that included Henry Cowell and Ruth Crawford Seeger, among others. He had no formal musical education, yet was an extreme...
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  • and his father John A. Lomax, with the transcription being done by Ruth Crawford Seeger. The recording was released in 1942 by the Library of Congress as...
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  • 1943 Shooting Star Farm, 1946 American Folk Songs for Children, by Ruth Crawford Seeger, 1948 Just Plain Maggie, 1948 The Best Christmas, 1949 Kildee House...
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    Scott (jazz singer) (Cleveland) Brady Seals (musician) (Fairfield) Ruth Crawford Seeger (modernist composer) (East Liverpool) Philip Setzer (classical violinist...
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  • composer Ruth Crawford Seeger, to whom she introduced the music of Scriabin and the ideas of theosophy. Herz’s mentorship was a formative part of Seeger’s journey...
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    not in the exact manner prescribed by Charles Seeger, include Johanna Beyer, John Cage, Ruth Crawford-Seeger, Vivian Fine, Carl Ruggles, Henry Cowell, Carlos...
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    His recordings as a conductor include works by Modest Mussorgsky, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Elliott Carter, Igor Stravinsky, Hans Werner Henze, Toru Takemitsu...
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    Bauer (1882–1955) (two trio sonatas for flute, cello, and piano) and Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953) (Diaphonic suite No. 2 for bassoon and cello). The cello's...
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    Collett studied with teachers including Agathe Backer-Grøndahl. Ruth Crawford Seeger [pupils] Giovanni Bononcini this teacher's teachers Cone (1917–2004)...
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  • musical biography", her publications include biographies on both Ruth Crawford Seeger and Ella Fitzgerald, as well as studies on Aaron Copland and Charles...
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  • composed by Ruth Crawford Seeger. The song depicts the exploitation of an immigrant Chinese laundry worker. In 1932 Ruth Crawford Seeger composed two...
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