File 136 - Diaries and letters of Ruth Crawford Seeger : for two female narrators and any number of instrumentalists

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OTUFM 11-B-136

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Diaries and letters of Ruth Crawford Seeger : for two female narrators and any number of instrumentalists

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  • 2000 (Creation)

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1 ms. score : typeset, pencil

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Kasemets, Udo
(1919-2014)

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University of Toronto Music Library

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Susan Layard (2014)

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File consists of a the score, written for "a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the composer/writer/diarist." The piece uses texts by Ruth Crawford Seeger in three continuous sections:

  1. Prologue: Diary entry from August 26, 1927
  2. Diaries and letters: New York jottings from 1930, letter to Edgard Varese, May 22, 1948
  3. Eclogue: "WHY DON'T THEY EAT CAKE?," 1938.

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