Sidney Robertson Cowell
Sidney Robertson Cowell (
born Sidney William Hawkins, 1903–1995) was an American ethnomusicologist, collector of folk songs, and the wife of the composer Henry Cowell.
She was born on June 2, 1903, in San Francisco, California, the daughter of Charles Albert and Mabel Morrison Hawkins.
She received a BA in Romance languages and philology from Stanford University in 1924.
Later that year she married Kenneth Robertson, a medical student, and they went to Europe.
She enrolled in 1925 in the École Normale de Musique in Paris, where she studied piano with Alfred Cortot.
Upon returning to California, she taught at the Peninsula School for Creative Education in Menlo Park, California from 1926 to 1932.
During that period, she studied counterpoint and analysis with Ernest Bloch and the music of non-European cultures with Henry Cowell at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
After divorcing in 1934 she moved to New York City, where she directed the Social Music Program at the Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side, working with elderly Jewish immigrants.
In 1936 she became an assistant to Charles Seeger, technical advisor of the Music Unit of the Special Skills Division of the Resettlement Administration in Washington, D.C.
(later the Farm Security Administration).
In this capacity she began collecting recordings of folk music in Appalachia, the Ozarks and the Upper Midwest.
She returned to California, where she initiated and arranged for sponsorship by the Library of Congress, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Works Progress Administration of the Northern California Folk Music Project, which she directed from 1938 to 1940 with a staff of twenty.
The project was one of the earliest attempts at conducting a large-scale ethnographic survey of American folk music in a defined region.
In addition to 35 hours of sound recordings, the team complied 168 photographs of the musicians and their instruments and copious documentation.
In 1941 she married Henry Cowell, whom she had known since her teen years in California.
The following year they moved to Shady, New York, a village near Woodstock.
During World War II they traveled as cultural ambassadors for the State Department, collecting music from around the world.
They collaborated on numerous publishing projects.
After his death in 1965 she continued to actively promote his musical legacy.
She died at her home in Shady in 1995.
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His contribution to the world of music was summed up by Virgil Thomson, writing in the early 1950s:
Henry Cowell's music covers a wider range in both expression and technique than that of any other living composer.
His experiments begun three decades ago in rhythm, in harmony, and in instrumental sonorities were considered then by many to be wild.
Today they are the Bible of the young and still, to the conservatives, "advanced."
...
No other composer of our time has produced a body of works so radical and so normal, so penetrating and so comprehensive.
Add to this massive production his long and influential career as a pedagogue, and Henry Cowell's achievement becomes impressive indeed.
There is no other quite like it.
To be both fecund and right is given to few.
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His best selling" What is?" illustrated children's book series on character education and difficult subjects for children is a popular teaching guide for parents, teachers and child- life professionals.
Boritzer gained national critical acclaim after" What is God?" was published in 1989 although the book has caused controversy from religious fundamentalists for its universalist views.
The other current books in the" What is?" series include
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The series is now also translated into 15 languages.
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His essay was included in a special anthology by New York City public school children compiled and published by the New York City Department of Education.
Boritzer now lives in Venice, California and maintains his publishing office there also.
He has helped numerous other authors to get published through" How to Get Your Book Published!" programs.
Boritzer is also a yoga teacher who teaches regular classes locally and guest- teaches nationally.
He is also recognized nationally as an erudite speaker on" The Teachings of the Buddha."

Question: When did Sidney Robertson Cowell's husband die?
Answer: December 10, 1965