Singer Of Beautiful Rare Folk Songs
First Artist On Music Trails Series
RICHARD DYER RENNET
The Alaska Music Trail opens
the concert season this year with
its first re-engagement of a major
artist, America’s master folk sing
er and guitarist Richard Dyer- Ben
net. One of the most popular ar
tists ever to appear in the north,
music lovers will remember his
tour in the Spring of 1957. They
will have another opportunity to
hear his beloved folk song reper
toire here on Monday, Oct. 17, at
8:15 p.m. in the Kodiak high school
auditorium.
Dyer-Bennet was brought up in
California and educated at Berkel
ey. A San Francisco music teacher
hearing him, urged him to journey
to Sweden to hear the great min
strel of the last generation, Sven
Scholander.
Equipped with a lute, a bicyle,
and $500.00 left him by a person
he had never seen, this thin young
man with a sweet tenor voice set
forth from California in search of
a career. He went to Sweden,
where he found the old man who
practiced the art he meant to
learn. The old man obligingly took
down his own lute from a shelf
and sang in the quavery voice of
age some of the songs he had sung
to three generations of Europeans.
“Somehow it was the greatest
musical experience I ever had,”
recaJils Dyer-Bennet of that visit
to 75 year old Scholander. It was,
for the young Dyer-Bennet, a con
firmation of his love of the song
stories of the people, the tender
love ballads, the robust and rol
licking adventure songs, the ex
uberant sea-chanteys, lumbermen’s
songs, soldiers’ songs. With the
hundred selections in German,
Swedish, and French that the aged
master gave him, he returned to
California to begin another long
journey. This was the trip in
search of recognition for an art
beloved by people through the
centuries, - centuries devoid of
radio, phonograph, concert hall,
from the days when the wander
ing minstrel was the welcome bear
er of all the entertainment there
was, as well as the only newspaper.
When everyone assured Dyer*
Bennet that there was no audience
in the United States for folk songs,
the young tenor found one in New
York’s swank night dubs. Pleasure
seekers in those gay spots paid him
the rare tribute of complete at
tention when he strummed his
guitar and sang the old ballads
of many lands. His success there
led to his engagement by ace im
presario Sol Hurok, and a highly
acclaimed Town Hall redtal
launched him on his concert career
exactly fifteen years ago. Now the
20th Century Troubadour has
some 700 folk songs in his fascinat
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Jim Eggemeyer will head up
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Bullen was m Kodiak Tuesday
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Lost, Found;
Compact Car
1RONTON, Ohio UO—John Now
ha, a Garden City, Mich., trucker,
dropped something while traveling
on U. S. 52 near here, and an Ohio
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ing repertoire, ranging from
haunting love songs to racy Eliz
abethan ballads, and including a
vast number of songs from our
American heritage.
Paper Drive On
By Cub Scout Pack
Beginning at 10 a.m., Saturday,
Oct. 8, Cub Scout Pack 213 will
pick up old newspapers through
out Kodiak.
In sponsoring the drive, the Cub
Scouts hope to raise funds for
Scouting activities in this area. A
house-to-house canvas will be
made, and the bundles hauled
away. They request that no
magazines or catalogues be includ
ed.
Alaska Parkers
Seeks To Build
The Alaska Packers Association
of Seattle, Wash, has applied for a
Department of the Army permit
to construct a wharf addition,
marine ways, side tracks and float,
and change the location of an ex
isting float in Kodiak Harbor with
in the corporate limits of the City
of Kodiak.
Any objections to the proposed
work from the standpoint of navi
gation should be mailed to: U.S.
Army Engineer District, Alaska,
P.0. Box 7002, Anchorage, Alaska,
to be received by October 28.
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