Thurlow Lieurance Vidéos
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Zez Confrey Thurlow Lieurance Mortimer Montana 1895 1909 1911 1913 1926 1950 1971 2003
Artis Wodehouse has transcribed Zez Confrey's +••.••(...) Ampico piano roll 68091 arrangement of Thurlow Lieurance's song, "By the Waters of Minnetonka." She has arranged it for two pianos. Having a musical score of a roll rendition is a unique way to study the roll arranging art that developed in the United States during the 1910s through the early 1930s. Confrey was a preeminent exemplar of this uniquely American musical art form. Regarding the origin of the song itself, around 1909, Lieurance acquired a portable cylinder recording device from Edison Records, and carried it with him whenever he went to visit Indian performers. In October 1911 he recorded a Crow (Apsalooke) (maybe Oglala Lakota Sioux) singer, Sitting Eagle, also known as Mortimer Dreamer, then living on the Crow Reservation in Montana. From this recording he took the melody for his song "By the Waters of the Minnetonka". He set it to a harp-like accompaniment, and it was published by Theodore Presser in 1913 as "an Indian love song" with words by J. M. Cavanass, becoming an instant success and going through several editions; it was also frequently recorded in the years before 1950.[ (Courtesy Wikepedia) Confrey's refreshing roll rendition of the tune / a set of variations / incorporates many of the Novelty/Ragtime licks for which he was justly famous and that evoke the echo effects and the reflection of the sun in the water that the Lieurance setting suggests. The sound source for the Confrey roll heard on this video is taken from Wodehouse's 2003 recording on the Warner Classics label, entitled "Zez Confrey Piano Rolls and Scores". For this project, Wodehouse read the original rolls into MIDI format, and they were recorded from a Yamaha Disklavier playback of this data. For more information about Confrey's rolls, go to "Time to Remember Zez Confrey" by Artis Wodehouse at academia.edu
Frances Alda Thurlow Lieurance Lapitino Charles Wakefield Cadman Wakefield Arthur Nevin Nevin Charles Sanford Skilton Preston Preston Ware Orem Ware Arthur Farwell Shore Schuman Julia Culp 1857 1878 1879 1883 1920 1932 1952 1963
Soprano Frances Alda +••.••(...)) / By the Waters of Minnetonka (Cavanass; Lieurance) / Orchestra: Josef Pasternack - director / Francis Lapitino - harp / Howard Rattay - violin / Recorded: May 17, 1920 / The illustration by Conrad Dickel / titled "By the Waters of Minnetonka" / is from the June 1932 cover of the US music magazine The Etude +••.••(...)), with an article on the Indianist composer Thurlow Lieurance. BY THE WATERS OF MINNETONKA Moon Deer, How near Your soul divine! Sun Deer, No fear In heart of mine. Skies blue O'er you Look down in love. Waves bright Give light As on they move. Hear thou My vow To live to die, Moon Deer, Thee near, Beneath this sky. Thurlow Lieurance (March 21, 1878- December 9, 1963) ~ American composer, known primarily for his song "By the Waters of Minnetonka". He is frequently classed with a number of his contemporaries, including Charles Wakefield Cadman, Arthur Nevin, Charles Sanford Skilton, Preston Ware Orem, and Arthur Farwell, as a member of the Indianist movement in American music. A typewritten note found among the composer's papers describes the legend behind the song "By the Waters of Minnetonka" : "Moon Deer, daughter of the Moon Clan, loved Sun Deer of the Sun Clan. Tribal law forbade marriage between the two clans. It was decreed that daughters of the Moon Clan must marry into the Eagle Clan. The two lovers, in tears, ran away far to the east and north. They came to a beautiful lake called Minnetonka (Minne means water; Tonka means large and round). Their happiness was disturbed because their traditional enemies, the Chippewa, lived on the north shore of this lake. They feared to return home and be separated, and finally in desperation they decided to end it all. The legend states that they disappeared beneath the waves and were no more. The waves moaned a rhythmic sound and the pines crooned their love song. Many moons afterwards the warriors of the Sioux drove the Chippewa north to Lake Superior. One night while they were camped on the shores of Lake Minnetonka, they heard the waters singing a weird melody and, in the moon-path on the waters, two lilies appeared and grew to the skies. The lilies were the spirits of Moon Deer and Sun Deer." Lieurance himself recognized how important to his career the song had been, later saying "That night marked an epoch in my life, opened to me a new world. What work I have since done has been due chiefly to that song. Thousands of people have heard it, clothed with the harmonizing which our ears demand; it is lying upon music tables all over the land, has been sung by many of the world's famous singers, including Schuman-Heink, Julia Culp and Alice Nielson." (wikipedia)/
Thurlow Lieurance Winters 1882 1905 1913 1917 1929 1969 1984
Mezzo-soprano Princess Watahwaso +••.••(...)) FOUR PENOBSCOT TRIBAL SONGS 1. A Song of Greeting. 2. Lullaby 3. Snail Song. 4. A Wedding Ceremonial Song. Recorded: November 16, 1917 TWO INDIAN SONGS (by Thurlow Lieurance) 1. Pe-pup-poon (Deer Flower) 2. The Sacrifice. (Composer at the piano / flute by Hubert Small) Recorded: November 16, 1917 Lucy Nicolar aka Princess Watahwaso Lucy Nicolar was born on Indian Island on the 22nd of June, 1882. She was the daughter of Joseph Nicolar and Elizabeth Joseph. Her childhood winters were probably spent making baskets. Each summer her family traveled to Kennebunkport, Maine to sell their baskets to the tourists. Lucy and her sisters provided entertainment for the customers, usually by singing and dancing. By the turn of the century, Lucy was performing at public events such as Sportsmen's Shows. Lucy married in 1905 to a Boston doctor and moved to Washington, DC for a time. Little else is known about the man or the marriage. They were divorced in 1913. This same year she moved to Chicago and studied piano at the Music School of Chautauqua. Lucy was employed for a time on the Redpath Chautauqua Circuit where she performed generic "Indian" entertainments. It appears this is where she first started using the stage name "Princess Watawaso". It was about this time that she met and married Tom Gorman, a lawyer, who also became her manager. After the stock market crash of 1929, Mr. Gorman took most of their money and left for Mexico, leaving Lucy behind. Lucy's 3rd husband was Bruce Poolaw, a Kiowa entertainer from Oklahoma, much younger than herself. The two eventually settled on Indian Island and built a gift shop. The shop was called "Poolaw's Indian TeePee". Ne-Do-Ba owns a basket purchased from this shop in the 1940s. After her retirement from the entertainment business, Lucy took up many causes for the betterment of the Penobscot People. At the top of the list were voting rights and education. She and her sister, Florence, worked together throughout their lives to change the public's view of Native People. Lucy Nicolar died at Indian Island on the 27th of March, 1969, at the age of 87. She is buried on Indian Island. Bruce Poolaw returned to Oklahoma and passed away in 1984. (Source: (http•••)/
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