Sidney Robertson Cowell recordings: Ditson Festival [sound recording]
name: label: producer
content: Cowell, Sidney Robertson
label: artist
content: Ritchie, Jean
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content: Summers, Andrew Rowan
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content: Pitt, Everett 1886-1954
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content: Eskin, Sam
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content: Old Harp Singers of Eastern Tennessee
notes: label: Notes
content: PART 3; CDR copy FW-ASCH-7RR-0810 contains the third of four segments of a "concert of American folk music" which is a part of the "sixth Annual Festival of Contemporary American Music" held in McMillan Theatre at Columbia University, in 1950, sponsored by the Alan Ditson Fund of the University. This tape is labelled Part III; parts I, II and IV are on FW-ASCH-7RR-0808, -0809 and -0811. In addition to an unidentified introductory announcer, Sam Eskin and Sidney Robertson Cowell moderate. A typed program including all four segments of the concert, is included in the jewel box and tape box. In addtion to Jean Ritchie (Kentucky mountain singer and mountain dulcimer player), the tape includes: the Old Harp Singers (on Folkways record FW02356), who are from east Tennessee and sing shaped note hymn music from The Harp of Columbia; Mr. Everett Pitt (a traditional northern U.S. singer), who sings two unaccompanied ballads; and Don Baker from Michigan, who plays the hammered dulcimer. Sidney Robertson Cowell provides interesting information about the hammered dulcimer.
label: Notes
content: Recorded in: United States, New York (N.Y.), 1950.
label: Table of contents
content: Intro--Northfield--Ocean--Morality (Old Harp Singers)--Rounds of Old Ireland--Over poor Anton O'Rowley (Farmer;s curst wife)(Everett Pitt); In haste to the wedding--Turkey in the straw--Irish washerwoman (don Baker)--I wonder Maria's gone--May carol (Jean Ritchie)
label: Repository Loc.
content: Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington, D.C. 20024. Call 202-633-7322 for appointment. Fax: 202-633-7019. Email: rinzlerarchives@si.edu
place: label: Place
content: United States
label: Place
content: New York (N.Y.)
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content: Kentucky
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content: Tennessee
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content: Michigan
topic: label: Topic
content: Folk songs
label: Topic
content: Folksong revival
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content: Dulcimer music
label: Topic
content: Appalachian Region, Southern--Songs and music
label: Topic
content: Dulcimer
culture: label: Culture
content: Americans
label: Culture
content: Anglo-American
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content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection, 1939-1986 228428
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Local number
content: FW-ASCH-7RR-0810
objectType: label: Type
content: Musical sound recordings
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only
physicalDescription: label: Physical description
content: 1 sound-tape reel : analog ; 7 in