Her marriage to Charles produced four children - Pete’s half-siblings - including Peggy and Mike. Ruth’s background as a composer was helpful in transcribing many of the recordings collected by the Lomaxes and archived by the Library of Congress (and subsequently published by Smithsonian Folkways and now online). Charles' second marriage was to Ruth Crawford Seeger, a modernist composer. Pete was the son of Charles' first marriage to violinist Constance de Clyver Edson, which ended in divorce.
He composed, conducted and performed music, but is probably best remembered for his scholarly work studying musical cultures, his teaching, and his collaboration with his wife Ruth and the father and son team of John and Alan Lomax in creating the Archive of Folk Song for the Library of Congress. Room.Ĭharles Seeger graduated from Harvard in 1908. A sign in the room identifies it as the Charles L. Ethnomusicology being the "anthropology of music," this collection ranges from works that cover the archaeology of music from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, to studies of contemporary music from every continent, to folk traditions from Europe and the Americas. The Loeb Music library at Harvard has a room in the basement where ethnomusicological works are shelved. Pete is an icon of American folk music, and I was reminded that his family has been entwined with music as performers, composers and scholars for generations. This season our song selection revolves around Pete Seeger and works he wrote, popularized or inspired (in the case of "Pete and Woody").
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