Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953)

Between new sounds and old songs, Kate Molleson shares the story of Ruth Crawford-Seeger Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) had multiple lives. As Ruth, she was an aspiring poet and teacher, who longed to become a mother. Crawford the composer wrote some of the most daring pages of 20th-century American music, granting her a place among the group of the 'Ultra-Modernists'. And, as the matriarch of…