This week’s program is just a tad different. Recently, the Library of Congress published a memoir of the Seeger Family by Archivist Anita M. Weber. This was this set’s inspiration. We'll hear some of the piano and symphonic music of Charles and Ruth Crawford Seeger, some of Ruth’s arrangements of folk tunes for piano and others performed by some of the Seeger Family. We’ll also hear pieces from Henry Cowell and Charles Ives, contemporaries of Ruth. So stretch your ears and hear an entirely different side to the music of the Seeger Family … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

Episode #20-37: The Orchestral Seeger

Host: Tom Druckenmiller

Artist/”Song”/CD/Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways

WM Stepp / “Bonaparte's Retreat” / Music of Kentucky / Yazoo

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields-Marriner / “Cowell-Hymn and Fuging Tune No.10 for Oboe and Strings” / Barber Adagio et al / Argo

Orchestra New England / “Ives-Putnam's Camp, Redding Connecticut” / The Orchestral Music of Charles Ives / Koch

Reinbert De Leeuw / “R C Seeger-Piano Study in Mixed Accents” / Ruth Crawford Seeger Portrait

Deutsche Grammophone

Schonberg Ensemble / “Charles Seeger-John Hardy” / Ruth Crawford Seeger Portrait / Deutsche Grammophone

Jenny Lin / “R C Seeger-Kaleidoscopic Changes on and Original Theme” / The World of Ruth Crawford Seeger / BIS

Jay Ungar and Molly Mason / “Bonaparte's Retreat and Hoedown” / Harvest Home / Angel

Penny Seeger / “The Old Cow Died” / Animal Folksongs for Children / Rounder

Mike Seeger / “Stewball” / Animal Folksongs for Children / Rounder

Sonya Cohen / “Little Rooster” / Animal Folksongs for Children / Rounder

Jenny Lin / “Jumping the Rope” / The World of Ruth Crawford Seeger / BIS

Jenny Lin / “Mrs Crow and Miss Wren Go for a Walk” / The World of Ruth Crawford Seeger / BIS

Virginia Eskin / “Boll Weevil” / Music of Marion Bauer and Ruth Crawford Seeger / Albany

Virginia Eskin / “What'll We Do With The Baby” / Music of Marion Bauer and Ruth Crawford Seeger Albany

Virginia Eskin / “Cindy” / Music of Marion Bauer and Ruth Crawford Seeger / Albany

George Winston / “Living in the Country” / Summer / Windham Hill

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways