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Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) had multiple lives. As Ruth, she was an aspiring poet and teacher, who longed to become a mother. Crawford the composer wrote some of the most daring pages of 20th-century American music, granting her a place among the group of the 'Ultra-Modernists'. And, as the matriarch of the Seeger dynasty, she collected and arranged countless pieces from treasures of the folk tradition. With Kate Molleson, discover the extraordinary life and work of a major American composer, in a story of creative experimentations, of family bonds, and most of all, of joy in music-making, accompanied by the memories of Crawford's daughter and folk legend, Peggy Seeger.

In this first episode, from a Midwest Methodist family to the mystical salons of Chicago's bohemian scene, we follow the first steps of Ruth Crawford in life... and in composition.

Little Waltz
Jenny Lin, piano

Five Songs to Poems by Carl Sandburg
I. Home Thoughts
II. White Moon
Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano
Gilbert Kalish, piano

Theme and Variations
Jenny Lin, piano

Trad, arr Ruth Crawford Seeger:
"When The Train Comes Along"
"The Train Is-A-Coming"
"The Little Black Train"
Mike and Peggy Seeger

Kaleidoscopic Changes on an Original Theme, Ending with a Fugue
Virginia Eskin, piano

Preludes for Piano
No 6, Andante Mystico
Bengt Forsberg, piano

Alexander Scriabin:
Symphony No. 3 in C minor (Op 43) "The Divine Poem"
III. Jeu divin
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko, conductor

Trad, arr Ruth Crawford Seeger:
"Monday Morning Go to School"
Mike and Peggy Seeger

Presented by Donald Macleod
Produced by Julien Rosa
A 大象传媒 Audio Wales & West production for 大象传媒 Radio 3

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