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15 Jan 06 - 08:52 AM (#1648679) Subject: Happy! – Jan 15 (A Lomax / Sigmeister) From: Abby Sale Happy Birthday! Austin, Texas Alan Lomax was born 1/15/1915 (d. July 19, 2002) Collected some folksongs, printed and recorded a few of them. Received The National Medal of Arts, 1986. Actually, Lawless wrote in 1960, one "would have to search far to find a living person who has done more than Alan Lomax in collecting, recording, and especially popularizing the vast body of our native songs." Lomax then worked another 42 years. ALSO: Composer/folksong collector/musicologist, Elie Sigmeister was born 1/15/1909 (d. March 10, 1991). It was Sigmeister that wrote the good notes for the Baez Songbook & who collected the very intriguing relic, "The Bold Fisherman" (Twinkie doodledum type) in upstate New York. Copyright © 2005, Abby Sale - all rights reserved What are Happy's all about? See Clicky |
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15 Jan 06 - 09:27 AM (#1648690) Subject: RE: Happy! – Jan 15 (A Lomax / Sigmeister) From: Stilly River Sage A search on Alan Lomax at the University of Texas at Austin gives many solid hits. SRS |
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15 Jan 06 - 05:57 PM (#1649072) Subject: RE: Happy! – Jan 15 (A Lomax / Sigmeister) From: Liz the Squeak Martin Luther King Jr was also born this day. LTS |