July 4 - Stephen Foster (The Musical Birthday Series, 5th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for July 4th are found here: Cathy Berberian (2019), Flor Peeters (2020), Stephen Foster (2021), and Gertrude Lawrence; Oscar the First, King of Sweden (2022)

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Stephen Foster (4 July 1826 – 13 January 1864) was an American songwriter known primarily for his parlor and minstrel music. Many of his songs have become American standards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Home, Sweet Home

Many of his songs had Southern themes, yet Foster never lived in the South and visited it only once, during his 1852 honeymoon. – Wikipedia

Let’s clear the air

  Concerning Stephen Foster;

It wouldn’t be fair

  To call him an impostor,

But his Southern facade,

  (Which makes some people cranky),

Is admittedly odd

  From this full-blooded Yankee.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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