There is no need to register for the conference. The events during the day are free, and tickets may be purchased for the evening concerts.

Friday, 26 October 2001
Brooklyn College, City University of New York
2900 Bedford Avenue
Click here for directions to ISAM at Brooklyn College.

10:45 - 11:45 am

Concert of Children's Music by
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Levenson Recital Hall
(Free) Call 718-951-5655 for information

The Adventures of Tom Thumb
Peggy Seeger, narrator www.pegseeger.com
Jenny Lin, piano www.jennylin.net

Let's Build a Railroad
Jody Diamond, Mary Ann Haagen, and Larry Polansky (http://music.dartmouth.edu/~larry/railroad) on voices, guitar, mandolin, mandocello, dobro, dulcimer, percussion, banjo, pennywhistle, and other instruments

1 - 3 pm

Towards a Revised Theory of Modernist Musical Practice
(Free) Student Union Building (SUBO)

Moderator: Philip Rupprecht (Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, CUNY)

Joseph N. Straus (Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center, CUNY)
Precompositional Strategies in Ruth Crawford's Music

Ellie M. Hisama (Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, CUNY)
Ruth Crawford's Pursuit of a Proletarian Music

Taylor A. Greer (Pennsylvania State University)
A Philosophical Duet: Mutual Influences in theThought of Ruth Crawford
and Charles Seeger

Lyn Ellen Burkett (SUNY Potsdam)
Navigating an Inexhaustible Sea: The European and the American in
Ruth Crawford's Music

3:30 - 5 pm

Ruth Crawford Seeger's Imprint on 20th-Century Music
A Composers' Roundtable
(Free) Student Union Building (SUBO)

Moderator: H. Wiley Hitchcock (CUNY Graduate Center)

Ursula Mamlok, Pauline Oliveros (www.deeplistening.org) and Christian Wolff

7 pm

Concert of Chamber Works by Ruth Crawford Seeger
Levenson Recital Hall
($10; $7 for students & seniors)
Call 718-951-5655 for information

Dora Ohrenstein, soprano (Ohrenstein at University of Buffalo);
Sarah Cahill, piano (www.sarahcahill.com);
Charleston String Quartet with Gary Chapman, piano;
Marilyn Nonken, piano (www.ensemble21.com/nonken);
Margaret Lancaster, flute (home.earthlink.net/~malancaster/);
and members of Essential Music(www.essentialmusic.com)

Saturday, 27 October 2001
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
All events will be held in Proshansky Auditorium

10 - 11:30 am

Folk Music, Culture, and the Politics of the Left
(Free)

Moderator: Ray Allen (Brooklyn College and and the CUNY Graduate Center, CUNY)

Michael Kammen (Cornell University)
From Disillusionment to Democracy: Rediscovering an American Ethos, 1932-1952

Benjamin Filene (Minnesota Historical Society)
Performing the Folk: The Seeger Family and Thirties Culture

Bess Lomax Hawes (NEA Folk Arts Program)
Reminiscenses of Ruth and the Folk Revival

1 - 2 pm

Keynote Address: The House That Ruth Built
(Free)

Judith Tick (Northeastern University)
Introduced by Carol J. Oja (College of William and Mary)

2 - 3:30 pm

Folk Music in North America: The Seeger Legacy
(Free)

Moderator: Nancy Groce (Smithsonian Institution)

Anthony Seeger (University of California, Los Angeles)
Aftershocks from the Washington Years: The Impact of Charles Seeger and Ruth Crawford Seeger on the Study and Presentation of Folklife in the United States

Roberta Lamb (Queen’s University)
The Legacy of Ruth Crawford Seeger's Folk Song Transcriptions for Music Educators

Larry Polansky (Dartmouth College)
Heterophony, Iron Head, E. C. Ball, and the Absence of Drama: 'the composition textbook she never wrote' (The Music of American Folk Song)

3:30 - 5 pm

Remembering Dio: A Seeger Family Scrapbook
(Free)

Moderator: Judith Tick

Mike Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Pete Seeger, Bess Lomax Hawes

8 pm

Seeger Family Tribute Concert

This concert is sold out and no standing room tickets will be sold

Mike Seeger (www.mikeseeger.pair.com), Peggy Seeger (www.pegseeger.com), and Pete Seeger perform songs transcribed and arranged by Ruth Crawford Seeger

RUTH CRAWFORD SEEGER
Modernity, Tradition, and the Making of American Music A Centennial Festival
is sponsored by the Institute for Studies in American Music and the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, CUNY and by the Ph.D./D.M.A. Program in Music and Continuing Education & Public Programs at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

RUTH CRAWFORD SEEGER
Modernity, Tradition, and the Making of American Music A Centennial Festival
is made possible by grants from the New York Council for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Edward T. Cone Foundation, Office of the Provost at Brooklyn College, the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, the Baisley Powell Elebash Endowment, the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities at Brooklyn College, Essential Music, Lucille Field Goodman, and Patsy Rogers.

FESTIVAL STAFF

Ellie M. Hisama, Brooklyn College & CUNY Graduate Center, Festival Director
Ray Allen, Brooklyn College & CUNY Graduate Center, Festival Director
Benjamin Filene, Minnesota Historical Society, Festival Advisor
Joseph N. Straus, Queens College & CUNY Graduate Center, Festival Advisor
Judith Tick, Northeastern University, Festival Advisor
David Levine, CUNY Graduate Center, Festival Coordinator
Graeme Fullerton, CUNY Graduate Center, Festival Assistant

Special thanks to Allan W. Atlas, John Graziano, Nancy Hager, H. Wiley Hitchcock, Frances Degen Horowitz, Christoph M. Kimmich, Roberta S. Matthews, Carol J. Oja, and David Olan.

For more information, please call ISAM at 718-951-5655.

Or Email ISAM at isam@brooklyn.cuny.edu.

Office of Continuing Education & Public Programs
CUNY Graduate Center
212-817-8215
continuinged@gc.cuny.edu
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cepp

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