At Dawning
Words by Nelle Richmond Eberhart
Music By Charles Wakefield Cadman
Jesse Crawford - Wurlitzer Organ
Recorded February 27, 1926, Chicago
About the composers:
Charles Wakefield Cadman (1881-1946) was a prime mover in the American folk movement, whose principal contributions to American music lie in his exploration of Amerindian music and his operas composed on American themes. Raised in Pittsburgh where he worked as a boy messenger in the steel mills, Cadman pursued private musical studies. He served as a music critic for the PITTSBURGH DISPATCH and performed as an accompanist and conductor at the start of his career before turning his attention to composition. Collaborating with local poet Nelle Richmond Eberhart in 1909, Cadman produced a series of songs on Indian themes from which the lilting melody, FROM THE LAND OF THE SKY BLUE WATER, became an instant hit. Soon after the famous tenor, John McCormack, programmed one of Cadman's earlier songs, AT DAWNING, and his future as a composer was secured. Inspired by the various ethnological inquiries then in vogue in America's ill-fated quest to preserve the dwindling Native American culture, Cadman spent the summer of 1909 collecting and recording Omaha and Winnebago tribal melodies and studying American Indian music. With a Native American princess, the mezzo-soprano Tsianina Redfeather, he toured the country between 1909 and 1916, giving music-talks on Amerindian music, finally settling in Los Angeles, where he devoted himself to opera.
Nelle Richmond Eberhart (1871-1944) lived at Atkinson and near York. Teacher, poet, lyricist, known for influencing composer Charles Wakefield Cadman with her interest in Native American culture and music, collaborating with him in writing about 200 songs, she is noted for words to "At Dawning" (1906) and "From the Land of Sky-Blue Water" (1909); she wrote words for opera "Shanewis" which became in 1917-19 the first American composition to appear more than one season at the Metropolitan Opera and for the words to "The Willow Tree" (1932), the first opera commissioned for radio
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