Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-07-15 | Page 13 | Music for Everyone

n t It I t r Un Ad S 1 for e S C I It r Q D Q Jo o c 1 I r DEDICATE mm OLD HOME DOME Fosters Foster's Negro Negro Songs Struck New Note Com Com- Composer Composer poser Recalled Recalled called H The Old Kentuck Kentuck Home near n K h hi where 8 C Collins I Poster oster wrote the song known knon all 1111 o er the hi world orld by that name is nos s df Heated Jul 4 aa ns a to lo the author and ind com com- composer corn poser At As the result of oC an nn appeal ry by Gov P Morrow and Morro and the appointment of a 0 state commission ea fund was as raised and the Old was Kentucky Home Borne to bu the old house hous housend and ind maintain it U for or the benefit of future Cutro generations gen ration The house houe is 1 I of historic t ince nce aside ashle from its conn connection cUon wIth roster rosIer v sav the New Nework cw Pork ork l r orld It t was wis q built in 1795 by b Judge Judee John Rowan one of the first d States StateR senators from rom Kentucky lA- lA lAfo La-faiette La fo elle vas waa entertained d ther Cher In 18 5 5 It is known kno as I and ia is said to be on one of o the purest examples example of o colonial archi architecture lecture now remaining in Kentucky s o 0 C roil HUM The rhe transfer to tho the state also commemorated the le of o Stephen i C rosters l birth Ills HI- III birthplace at ot Pitts burg Pitts-burg burg belongs s to that city A 1 few lew ears cars ago another me memorial mortal morial was established In the form ormo ot of an all endowment ment to enable 1 the he York city to toS toas tower o er Mission Muston New S lp men roen as down and out 11 as ne aas as as when he lye 11 Hied cd on on th tp Ho Bowery ery r and sold old old his songs for a n few lew dollars to buy bu bread and rum oo Iso ho 0 better proof than Ihan these me- me me Is Iq needed that f l oster ester s ahong's songs hOnga are real rell music folk In the Lance that they arc are the expression of the emotions of g a people Ine lne are folk foik In another sense also elso for they are all within the range of the average c advice olce olce so that t can enn sing them their har- har har harmonies monies montes are so simple that eser- eser eer ev e er- er erne cri crime me roe ne can cin learn them and the chords that hat hat accompany my are arc those that e e er one can an strum The question whore where Foster l got the Intimate color of his songs Is ls an open one roster foster his brother says the fam fam- family ily Jy Iy had a mulato mulata girl bound ho was as allowed to take Stephen with her to her church sometimes and that from the shouting there he picked up the ie that distinguished the musiche music musiche he later wrote EW V F Fosters s ne negro ro songs struck araw a arow raw leW note Before that time the th negro on the stage and in music had been l een represented merely aa as a aI I buffoon Zip Zip Coon and TIm Jim Crow were Here its accredited Its accredited atone rosier foster Pf pux into Inlo his hi songs Itha the tho I elemental pathos and lInd huma humanity 10 o f the rac r as well as Its quaInt humor Occasionally ly in his other music he touched a high loiel ll as asIn asla In the still popular serenade Come Where Ire My ly Love Lles 1118 log Dream but tor for the most moat part I it la ls the thc negro melodies that have lived I I I roster Poster published some liO songs in all Among those be best t remembered remembered I ered are Old h hl Homo Homp Hard lIard Times Old Uncle Ned heliy Was 1 a Lad Old Old mack Black BlackJoe Joe Jop Massas In do da Cold Cold Ground Come Mv My Love Lieo Dreaming Dr Swanee River and ld i l i Dog Tray Trai I