As a friend for whom a made a copy of the Shilkret CD mentioned, it's interesting that "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" is pronounced in the Irish way as "Jenny".
db
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On Mon, 4/27/15, Steven Smolian <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Pittsburgh's Stephen Foster Memorial Museum
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Monday, April 27, 2015, 12:03 PM
And he also wrote some
very beautiful songs.
"Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair",
as done by Bjoerling on an RCA recital LP is absolutely
stunning.
Steve
Smolian
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27, 2015 11:38 AM
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Pittsburgh's
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Hi David:
This
is the politically "correct" thought police at
work. It's a cancer on American society, created and
nurtured in academia. It's disgusting to me, because
it's dishonest and anti-truth. It's straight out of
George Orwell, as are most far-left academic notions.
Totally agree about Stephen Foster. He was a major part of
American musical and cultural history, whether his lyrics
"offend"
people whose default
stance is moral "outrage" or not.
-- Tom Fine
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From: "DAVID BURNHAM" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2015 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Pittsburgh's
Stephen Foster Memorial Museum
>I think one of the sadest
developments in American musical history is the ostracizing
of Stephen
>Foster's music because
he is described as being "racist". Stephen Foster
wrote prolifically about a
>period in
history which was cruel to African Americans, (although, of
course, he never used that
>expression),
but he always described them as honest, God fearing, family
oriented, loving people.
>Sure, some of
his songs containg the "N" word, but he lived in a
time when that word wasn't used as
>offensively as it is today.
> Gilbert, of Gilbert and Sullivan was a
very morally upright person who would not knowingly offend
> anyone, but he used the "N"
word twice in "Mikado", (which is occasionally
described as offensive
> to the
Japanese).
> "Showboat" is
often described as racist. When it was to be shown in
Toronto to open a new concert
> venue
over 20 years ago, there were huge outcries from protesters
who obviously didn't understand
>
the work at all. "Showboat" was a curageous
statement AGAINST racism at a time when racist
> sentiments were quite acceptable, (late
'20s). The very first word in "Showboat" is
the "N" word,
> (I'm not
spelling it out because I don't want to offend anybody
and if there is automatic
> monitoring
of ARSC posts, the presence of the word would cause the post
to be rejected), and that
> word is used
throughout "Showboat", but anyone who knows
"Showboat" knows it's anything but
> racist. Paul Robeson was a very outspoken
critic of anything racist and would not participate in
> anything which was offensive to anyone,
yet he was proud to appear in "Showboat" and
"Old Man
> River" almost
became his theme song.
> db
>
>
> On Monday, April 27, 2015
10:56 AM, "Williams, Tim" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>
>
> Though not as big or eccentric as the
Bayernhof Museum, Pittsburgh's Stephen Foster Memorial
> Museum is much more accessible and
quick to tour:
>
>
> http://www.pitt.edu/~amerimus/Museum.htm
>
>
>
It's on Forbes Avenue (lots of buses go from Downtown up
Forbes) in Oakland, at the foot of the
>
University of Pittburgh's gigantic Cathedral of Learning
and across the street from the Carnegie
> Museums and Library and the Dippy the
Dinosaur statue.
>
>
>
>
See lots of you folks a month from now!
>
> Tim
>
>
>
Timothy R. Williams
>
> Librarian
>
> Music, Film & Audio Department
>
> Carnegie Library of
Pittsburgh
>
>
>
> Check out this list
of Pittsburgh jazz musicians:
>
> http://carnegielibrary.org/research/music/pittsburgh/pittsburghjazzmusicians.html
>
>
>
>
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