Ruth Crawford Seeger (born Ruth Porter Crawford; July 3, 1901 – November 18, 1953) was an American composer and folk music specialist. Her music heralded...
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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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Ruth Crawford Seeger: a Composer's Search for American Music (1997). Archived May 11, 2023, at the Wayback Machine "David Lewis, Ruth Crawford Seeger...
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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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musician Ruth Crawford Seeger (née Ruth Porter Crawford). With her he had four children: Mike Seeger (1933–2009), Peggy Seeger (b. 1935), Barbara Seeger and...
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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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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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Alessandro Blasetti, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1987) 1901 – Ruth Crawford Seeger, American composer (d. 1953) 1903 – Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey...
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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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and Toshi Seeger Tao Rodríguez-Seeger (b. 1972), a contemporary American folk musician; son of Mika Tinya Seeger (ii) Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953)...
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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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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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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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contemporary composers, including quartets by Elliott Carter and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Carter's Fourth Quartet was dedicated to the Composers Quartet,...
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8, episode 15 of the TV series, The Practice. In 1932, composer Ruth Crawford Seeger wrote the song "Sacco, Vanzetti" on commission from the Society of...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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has published editions of the works of Johanna Magdalena Beyer, Ruth Crawford Seeger, and an on-line web-book, Janet and Her Dear Pheobe, written by Henry...
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"American Experimental School". These include Charles Ives, Charles and Ruth Crawford Seeger, Henry Cowell, Carl Ruggles, and John Becker. The New York School...
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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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United Kingdom 23 April 1882 11 December 1953 Composer, conductor Ruth Crawford Seeger United States 3 July 1901 18 November 1953 Composer String Quartet...
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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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Troendle, organist Helen Searles Westbrook, and, most notably, composer Ruth Crawford Seeger. He wrote the book Harmonic Material and its Uses in 1924 to aid...
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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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Music (University Press of Kentucky, 2003), p. 33. Tick, Judith, Ruth Crawford Seeger, A Composer's Search for American Music (Oxford University Press...
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