![]() ![]() Many promises are made by the singer, ensuring that with hard work, everything put in the ground would grow like “Jack’s bean.” Fortunes are waiting to be made in the logging camps of Michigan’s dense forests by the strong, brave souls who venture far from “ma & pop.” “THE PROMISED LAND” is a march based on the melodies of “Michigan-I-A,” and several versions of “Michigan-I-O.” The lyrics of these tunes contain many appeals to Yankee farmers and laborers to come to Michigan and settle or work. TUEBOR is a multi-movement suite honoring the agricultural, maritime and lumbering history of the state, incorporating the melodies of numerous Michigan folk-tunes in the tradition of Grainger, Holst, Vaughan Williams, and Copland. These recordings, along with the 1950’s recordings of Duane Starcher (recorded for WMUK Radio at Western Michigan University) were rich source material for this project. In ten weeks, he recorded more than 120 performers from Detroit to the western Upper Peninsula, many of them immigrants who brought their rich musical heritage with them from France, Ireland, Romania, Poland, and the Middle East. Lomax was particularly interested in the trove of ballads remembered by aging lumberjacks and Great Lakes sailors. In 1938, a young folk music collector named Alan Lomax came from Washington, DC to record Michigan’s folk music traditions for the Archive of American Folk-Song at the Library of Congress. In the center, the Latin "TUEBOR," meaning, "I will defend," refers to Michigan's frontier position, surrounded by the Great Lakes on every coast, and bordering Canada to the north and east. The iconography was patterned after the seal of the Hudson Bay Fur Company and was adopted in 1835. The official Flag, Coat of Arms, and Great Seal of the state of Michigan were designed by Lewis Cass, Michigan's second territorial governor. Michigan Folksongs gathered in the Upper & Lower Peninsulas by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress, and set for Concert Band (Military Band) by Andrew David Perkins (ASCAP)ġ. “THE PROMISED LAND” (Michigan-I-A, Michigan-I-O)Ģ. “SIREN SONGS” (The Bigler, The Clifton’s Crew, The Gallagher Boys)ģ. “TIMBER!” (Once More A-Lumb’ring Go, The Logger’s Alphabet) ![]()
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