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| MacColl/Seeger, 1846-2009 (bulk 1930-1995) (continued) | |||||||||||||
| Correspondence, 1959-1994 (continued) | |||||||||||||
| General Correspondence, 1959-1994 (continued) | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 188/1 | 1984 January-June | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Sidney Robertson Cowell, Johanna Halbesien, Mike Seeger, Pete Seeger, Denise Venturi, and Stewart Young | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 188/2 | 1984 July-December | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Penny Seeger Cohen, Frank Elliott, Johanna Halbeisen, Faith Petric, Mike Seeger, and Judith Tick | |||||||||||||
| Includes: Notated music for Phil House, "What If the Russians Didn't Come?" | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 188/3 | 1984 undated | ||||||||||||
| Includes: Notated music and lyrics for Betsy Rose, "Manitoba 1981" | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 188/4 | 1985 January-March | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Sidney Robertson Cowell, Alan Lomax, and Stewart Young | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 188/5 | 1985 April- June | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Johanna Halbeisen, Mike Seeger, Pete Seeger, Irwin Silber, and Judith Tick | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 188/6 | 1985 July-December | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Sidney Robertson Cowell, Philip Donnellan, Matilda Gaume, Faith Petric, Mike Seeger, and Judith Tick | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 188/7 | 1985 and undated | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo, John Cohen, Penny Seeger Cohen, Bess Lomax Hawes, Gershon Legman, Mike Seeger, and Pete Seeger | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 189/1 | 1986 January-March | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Philip Donnellan, Johanna Halbesien, Hamish Henderson, and Mike Seeger | |||||||||||||
| Includes: Typescript of Trevor Fisher, "Radio and the Popular Voice" | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 189/2 | 1986 April-June | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Sidney Robertson Cowell, Johanna Halbeisen, Hamish Henderson, Naomi Seeger Hvolbek, Mike Seeger, and Pete Seeger | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 189/3 | 1986 July-December | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Matilda Gaume, Johanna Halbeisen, and Pete Seeger | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 189/4 | 1986 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 189/5 | 1987 January-March | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Sidney Robertson Cowell, Elsa Corbluth, Matilda Gaume, Alan Lomax, and Charles Seeger, III | |||||||||||||
| Includes: Eilidh Boadella, I won't paint any tears | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 189/6 | 1987 April-June | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Elsa Corbluth, Sidney Robertson Cowell, and Barbara Dane | |||||||||||||
| Includes: Lead sheet for Frank Purcell "Title Deeds" | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 189/7 | 1987 July-October | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Johanna Halbeisen and Mike Seeger | |||||||||||||
| Includes: Libba Cotten obituary | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 190/1 | 1987 November-December and undated | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Elsa Corbluth, Gershon Legman, Alan Lomax, Christy Moore, and Mike Seeger | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 190/2 | 1988 January-March | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Barbara Dane, Johanna Halbeisen, Elvira Hauschild, and Pete Seeger | |||||||||||||
| Includes: Brian Stone, "Song Writing and Music: Master Classes for Documentary and Community Plays with Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger" and Goldsmith College, "Minds of Our Own: Second Research Report on the Outreach Education Project" | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 190/3 | 1988 April-June | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Philip Donnellan, Hamish Henderson, and Sally Rogers | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 190/4 | 1988 July-December | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Elvira Hauschild, Mike Seeger, and Pete Seeger | |||||||||||||
| Includes: Words and music for Jerry Spring, "The Rambler Farewell" | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 190/5 | 1988 undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 190/6 | 1989 January-March | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Elsa Corbluth, Sidney Robertson Cowell, Johanna Halbeisen, Elvira Hauschild, and Mike Seeger | |||||||||||||
| Includes: Words for Hunter and Paley, "Ballad of Lewes Gaol" | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 190/7 | 1989 April-June | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Sidney Robertson Cowell, Johanna Halbeisen, Jeremy Seeger, and Mike Seeger | |||||||||||||
| Includes: Charles D. Laird, "Huntington Disease: Proposed Mechanism of Mutation, Inheritance, and Expression" | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 190/8 | 1989 July-December | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Billy Bragg, Sonya Cohen, Edith Fowke, Johanna Halbeisen, Elvira Hauschild, Hamish Henderson, Mike Seeger, and Pete Seeger | |||||||||||||
| Includes: Billy Bragg's manuscript lyrics for "A New Internationale" | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/1 | 1989 undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/2 | 1990 January-June | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Billy Bragg, Elsa Corbluth, Barbara Dane, Johanna Halbeisen, Elvira Hauschild, Sandra Kerr, Inez Seeger, Mike Seeger, Pete Seeger, and Irwin Silber | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/3 | 1990 July-December and undated | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Penny Seeger Cohen, Elsa Corbluth, Johanna Halbeisen, Charles Seeger, III, Jeremy Seeger, Kate Seeger, Mike Seeger, Pete Seeger, Toshi Seeger, and Eva Wachsmann | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/4 | 1991 January-June | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Penny Seeger Cohen, Elsa Corbluth, Elvira Hauschild, Hamish Henderson, Faith Petric, Mike Seeger, and Paddy Tunney | |||||||||||||
| Includes: Keith McKenry, "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Talking Kuwait Blues and other poems," and Paddy Tunney, "Where the Songs Do Thunder," chapter 2 | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/5 | 1991 July-December and undated | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Johanna Halbeisen, John Seeger, Jeremy Seeger, Mike Seeger, and Pete Seeger | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/6 | 1992 January-September | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Joe Bossom, Elsa Corbluth, Gershon Legman, Barbara Seeger, Kate Seeger, Mika Seeger, Mike Seeger, Tony Seeger, and Judith Tick | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/7 | 1992 October-December and undated | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Joe Bossom, Elsa Corbluth, Pete Seeger, and Toshi Seeger | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/8 | 1993 January-June | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Sonya Cohen, Elsa Corbluth, and Mika Seeger | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 192/1 | 1993 July- December and undated | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Elvira Hauschild, Laura Seeger, Pete Seeger, and Alexia Smith | |||||||||||||
| Includes: Pete Seeger's additional lyrics to Ewan MacColl's "Joy of Living" | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 192/2 | 1994 January-June | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Sandra Kerr, Barbara Seeger, Mike Seeger, Pete Seeger, Alexia Smith, and Hedy West | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 192/3 | 1994 July-December and undated | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Elsa Corbluth and Christy Moore | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 192/4 | undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 193 | Condolence Letters and Cards, 1989 | ||||||||||||
| Arranged chronologically. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/1 | Letters (1 of 3), 1989 | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Billy Bragg, Sidney Robertson Cowell, Elvira Hauschild, Hamish Henderson, Louis Killen, Alan Lomax, Tom Paley, and John Seeger | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/2 | Letters (2 of 3), 1989 | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Paddy Tunney | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/3 | Letters (3 of 3), 1989 | ||||||||||||
| Correspondents include: Elsa Corbluth, Edmund Frow, Naomi Seeger Hvolbek, Sandra Kerr, Jeremy Seeger, and Naomi Seeger | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/4-6 | Cards, 1989 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 194-202, 260, 263, 270-271 | Organizations, 1931-1993 | ||||||||||||
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The Organizations subseries documents three entities in which Ewan MacColl and/or Peggy Seeger played significant roles: the Critics Group, the Singers Club, and the Workers Theatre Movement including the Theatre Workshop. The Critics Group, an offshoot of the Singers Club, provided MacColl and Seeger, as seasoned folk revival performers, with a venue to share their experience in the art of folk performance with Club performers, attendees, and others. The Critics Group came also to serve as a vehicle for MacColl to write and stage The Fesival of Fools--satirical plays performed during the new year season that recapitulated the previous year’s news. New and old folk songs and dancing were a feature of the programs. MacColl also wrote mumming plays and radio plays for the group. The bulk of the Critics Group materials document these programs through scripts and other documentation created to manage the productions. Annotated scripts show how each play developed as it was rehearsed. Peggy Seeger played a significant role in the productions managing the communications, finances, and staging. Her “books” are interesting for the director’s notes found on the verso of rehearsal script pagess. Photographs (virtually all unidentified as to performers or production) show how the performances were staged. The Singers Club was a membership organization operated by a volunteer management committee of members under the auspices of the Education Department of London Co-operative Society Ltd. between 1961 and January 1992. Originally based in the Princess Louise pub, the Club cycled through a number of different physical locations over its 30 year history. MacColl and Seeger played a significant role in the club's structure and organization and performed there nearly weekly, except when they were on extended tours outside London. Performance books and lists of songs sung by MacColl provide a window into the extent of their performing history, the songs they sang at the Club, and others who appeared there. Meeting minutes document the administration of the club and financial records including bar accounts, invoices, and cash books shed light on the money matters. Although theater loomed large in MacColl's early years, there is little documentation about his role in the development of the Theatre Workshop the most significant organization to come out of the Workers Theatre Movement in England. This sub-subseries contains mainly articles, photographs, and programs from various productions. Materials consist of cast and crew lists, music cue sheets, newsletters, photographs, rehearsal schedules, scripts, and stage layouts. |
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| Arranged in three sub-subseries: Critics Group, Singers Club, and Workers Theatre Movement. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 194-198, 260 MAPCASE-FOLDER 18 | Critics Group, 1965-1973 | ||||||||||||
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Materials consist of articles, cast and crew lists, music cue sheets, newsletters, notated music, photographs, posters, programs, rehearsal schedules, scripts, and stage layouts. |
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| Arranged alphabetically by file unit. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 194/1 | "Critics Group and the British Folksong Revival," 1968 | ||||||||||||
| By Ewan MacColl | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 194/2 | Dissolution papers, 1972 | ||||||||||||
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Festival of Fools see also Photographs - Festival of Fools |
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| 1965 | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 194/3 | Charles Parker files | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 194/4 | Notes on weather lore | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 194/5-6 | Scripts | ||||||||||||
| 1967 | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 194/7 | Miscellaneous | ||||||||||||
| Includes: Notes, programs, and rehearsal schedules | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 260/3 | Photograph album | ||||||||||||
| Includes: Leaflet and program | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 194/8 | Script | ||||||||||||
| Bound volume | |||||||||||||
| Includes: List of units and participants, minutes, notes and corrections, and rehearsal schedules | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 194/9 | Script - D. G. Smith's book | ||||||||||||
| Annotated | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 194/10 | Script - Peggy's book | ||||||||||||
| Includes: Cue sheets, annotated script, and unit and participant lists | |||||||||||||
| 1968 | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 260/4 | Artwork | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 195/1 | Miscellaneous | ||||||||||||
| Includes: Stage layout, units, and tape cues | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 263/8 | Music | ||||||||||||
| Notated music | |||||||||||||
| MAPCASE FOLDER 18 | Photographs | ||||||||||||
| Mounted on cardboard | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 195/2 | Programs and songbook | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 195/3 | Script | ||||||||||||
| Bound | |||||||||||||
| Note: Annotated | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 195/4-5 | Scripts | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 195/6 | 1969 | ||||||||||||
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