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Thread #43871   Message #642931
Posted By: masato sakurai
05-Feb-02 - 09:30 AM
Thread Name: Abolition Show background
Subject: RE: Abolition Show background
THIS may help.

The document in Levy (CLICK HERE) is:

Title: [Foster-Hall Reproductions]. The Great Baby Show, or, The Abolition Show.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Stephen C. Foster [holograph of text and music sent to the composer's brother, Wm. B. Foster, Jr., March 11, 1857].
Publication: n.p., n.d.: , .
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus
Instrumentation: piano and voice
First Line: On the Seventeenth day of September you know
First Line of Chorus: Sing tu ral lal lu ral lal etc.
Subject: Satire
Subject: Political platforms
Subject: Parades & processions
Subject: Politicians
Call No.: Box: 071 Item: 049

~Masato