Ellisor’s contributions to the orchestral repertoire include such uniquely American works as Blackberry Winter for mountain dulcimer and strings,NPR. "Conni Ellisor", NPR, Retrieved on 22 April 2019. and Whiskey Before Breakfast – Partita for Bluegrass Band and Strings.LeDor Publishing.
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It was announced in the October 8, 1983 issue of Cashbox Michael Dion and Michael Grantham had formed a production company to produce jazz and classical artists. The name of the company was In The Interest Productions.Cashbox, October 8, 1983 - Page 17 Jazz/Classical Company Formed Some of the albums he has produced are Blackberry Winter by Mike Campbell & Tom Garvin,AllMusic - Mike Campbell / Tom Garvin Blackberry Winter Blue Sud by Marc Devine and Art Johnson.AllMusic - Marc Devine / Art Johnson Blue Sud He was the executive producer for Cozzetti & Gemmill's album Soft Flower in Spring which was released in 1983.
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She also wrote the lyrics for "Blackberry Winter", which became a back-door million-seller as the B-side of Mitch Miller's recording of The Yellow Rose of Texas, which became a #1 hit in the U.S. in 1955. Edith Lindeman was honored by the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1977. She died in Richmond on December 22, 1984.
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He was co- host of the Peabody Award-winning NPR radio series American Popular Song with his friend and collaborator, Alec Wilder."American Popular Song" at www.npr.org Among the songs that McGlohon wrote with Wilder are "Blackberry Winter", "Be a Child" and "While We're Young". McGlohon, like Wilder, could write both music and lyrics, and for the song "Songbird" he wrote both.
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Bateson and Margaret Mead contrasted first and Second-order cybernetics with this diagram in an interview in 1973.Interview with Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead, in: CoEvolutionary Quarterly, June 1973. Bateson's encounter with Mead on the Sepik river (Chapter 16) and their life together in Bali (Chapter 17) is described in Mead's autobiography Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years (Angus and Robertson. London. 1973). Their daughter Catherine's birth in New York on 8 December 1939 is recounted in Chapter 18.
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He was featured on their concerto for mountain dulcimer and string orchestra with Connie Ellisor and David Schnaufer (Warner Classical recording, Blackberry Winter). Seifert has also performed this piece with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, the Montpellier Chamber Orchestra, and the Adrian Symphony Orchestra. He has been called "...the world's leading dulcimer soloist..." Seifert has released many educational DVDs and videos on the subject of dulcimer playing. He gives numerous dulcimer workshops in the US every year.
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Retrieved on 22 April 2019. Blackberry Winter has generated widespread NPR airplay and was featured on All Things Considered.NPR. "Conni Ellisor", NPR, Retrieved on 22 April 2019. Her long and productive association with the Nashville Chamber Orchestra resulted in the premieres of 11 of her works. Three were recorded for broadcast by NPR’s Performance Today,NPR Performance Today. "The Sounds of the Tennessee Music Box", NPR, 28 January 2005. Retrieved on 22 April 2019. and her “Conversations In Silence” became the title track on the orchestra’s 1997 debut album on Warner Bros.Discogs.
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He and Lindeman also collaborated on "Red Headed Stranger", which was a hit song for Willie Nelson, and "Blackberry Winter", which became a back-door million- seller as the B-side of Mitch Miller's recording of The Yellow Rose of Texas, a #1 hit in the U.S. in 1955. During his songwriting years, Stutz was an announcer at powerhouse radio station WRVA in Richmond, Virginia. He later became a high-school mathematics teacher at Manchester High School in Chesterfield, Virginia. Carl Stutz died, at age 80, in Richmond on October 8, 1996.
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At Chico State College (where he taught from 1959 to 1962), when Carver mentioned to Gardner that he had not liked the assigned short story, Robert Penn Warren's "Blackberry Winter," Gardner said, "You'd better read it again." "And he wasn't joking", said Carver, who related this anecdote in his foreword to Gardner's book On Becoming a Novelist. In that foreword, he makes it clear how much he respected Gardner and also relates his kindness as a writing mentor. In addition to Chico State, Gardner taught at Oberlin College (1958-1959), San Francisco State College (1962-1965), Southern Illinois University Carbondale (1965-1974) and Binghamton University (1976-1982).
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