PUBLICATIONS PMSS EPHEMERA 1938 Town Hall, N.Y. Program for Jubilee Fundraising

Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 30: MUSIC AND DANCE
Town Hall New York Fundraising
For PMSS, November 21, 1938

Program, Town Hall, New York, PMSS Jubilee Fundraising. Nov. 21, 1938. Cover, p.1. [ny_town_hall_fundraiser_001.jpg]

EPHEMERA Town Hall, N.Y. Program for 1938 Jubilee Fundraising

For Pine Mountain Settlement School, November 21, 1938

TAGS: Town Hall New York, fundraising, PMSS students, PMSS staff, The English Folk-Dance & Song Society of America, May Gadd, John Martin, Choir of the Church of the Savior, dance critics, New York Times, dancers, Glyn Morris, Leonard Elsmith, folk music and dance, string quartet

The year 1938 was a busy one for Pine Mountain as Director Glyn Morris engaged donors across the major northeast area of the United States to assist with fundraising efforts. The following program was part of the 9th season, the 1938-39 Town Hall Endowment Programs.

On Monday evening of November 21, 1938, at 8:30 pm, students and staff from the Pine Mountain Settlement School presented an evening of Folk-Music and Folk-Dance at The Town Hall in New York City “for the benefit of the Pine Mountain Settlement School, Harlan County, Kentucky.” The program was planned to support the School’s Silver Jubilee.

Those present included the following:

John Martin, Dance Critic of The New York Times
The English Folk-Dance & Song Society of America – May Gadd, Director
Choir of the Church of the Saviour – Morris Watkins, Director
The Durieux String Quartet – Willem Durieux, Director
Students from Pine Mountain Settlement School – Glyn Morris, Director
Leonard Elsmith, Chairman, Program Committee

TRANSCRIPTION: MUSIC Town Hall New York Fundraising

PROGRAM

I. AVE
Christ Church Bells	Round for voices Longways Dance

Town Hall Program, part 1

II. FOLK SONGS
Cape Cod Chantey	arranged by Raymond Bowers
May Day Carol	arranged by Deems Taylor
Lilibulero	decant by Mary Chater
Twenty, Eighteen	arranged by Deems Taylor
	Singers

Town Hall Program, page 2

III. COUNTRY DANCES (traditional style)
Lilibulero	Longways for as many as will
Step Stately
Newcastle	Square for four couples
	Folk dancers

Town Hall Program, p 3

Intermission 5 minutes

IV. FOLK-MUSIC for PIANO
One More Day, My John	Percy Grainger
Lilibulero	Henry Purcell
The Sussex Mummers’ Christmas Carol	Percy Grainger Leonard Elsmith
The Newcastle Dance	Hubert J. Foss, Stanley Fearl, Leonard Elsmith

Town Hall Program, p. 4

V. “FOLK ART IN THE LIFE OF TODAY”

John Martin

Town Hall Program, p. 8-9

VI. COUNTRY DANCES (modern style)
Yorkshire Square Eight	Square for four couples
Oranges and Lemons	Square for four couples
Phillibelulah all the way	Longways for as many as will
	Folk Dancers

Town Hall Program, p. 8-9

VII. SWORD DANCE
Winlaton	From Durham Sword Dance Team

Town Hall Program, p. 8-9

Intermission 10 minutes

VIII. SONGS FROM THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAINS
Black, Black, Black, is the Color of my True Love’s Hair
The Cuckoo
Amazing Grace
	Ruby Ayers and Lucille Christian

Town Hall Program, p. 8-9

IX. STRING QUARTET
Sally in Our Alley	arranged by Alfred Pochon
Londonderry Air	Frank Bridge
Molly on the Shore	Percy Grainger

Town Hall Program, p. 8-9

X. MORRIS DANCES
Trunkles	from Blidington, (Gloucestershire)
I’ll Go and Enlist For a Sailor	from Sherborne, (Gloucestershire)
Lads a Bunchum	from Alderberry, (Gloucestershire)
	Morris Dance Team

Town Hall Program, p.8-9

XI. FOLK – SONGS
Jon, Com Kisse Me, Now!	In the form of a dialogue
Hame, Dearie, Hame	arranged by Marshall Bartholomew
What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor?	arranged by Maurice Jacobson
	Singers

Town Hall Program, p. 8-9

XII. VALE
Kentucky Running Set
Four in a square — Lady’ round the lady and gent don’t go — Shoot that owl — Bird in the cage — All form a single line — Ocean wave — lady fall through the old side door — Wild goose chase	Students from Pine Mountain School

Town Hall Program, p.11

Students from Pine Mountain School	Ruby Ayers, Lucille Christian, Helen Ruth Cornett, Pauline Frost, Paul Hayes, Noel Howard, Walter Revis, Wilbur Wilder
Singers	Laura McKenna Bear, Elsie Beuer, Elaine Gerber, Veronica Olson, Virginia Russell, Jan Shanley, Lucile Towne, Mortimer Davenport, Paul Haskell, Herman Henning, Theodore Valentine
Dancers	Mary Chapman, May Gadd, Kathleen Hider, Betty Jeffries, Frances Putnam, Eugenia Townsend, Catherine White, Muriel Youland, Stanley Fearl, Robert Hider, Russell Houghton, Kenneth Knowles, Francis Latady, Albert Meyer, William Partington
Quartet	Christine Phillipson, Marie vanden Broeck, Eugenie Limberg, Willem Durieux
Accompanist for singers	Luis Harold Sanford
Accompanist for dancers	Alice Haigh, assisted by Philip Callaci, Seymour Schwartzberg, Leo Teraspulsky
	The pianos are Steinways

GALLERY: MUSIC Town Hall New York Fundraising

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