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RUTH CRAWFORD SEEGER
Recipient of the 2005 Magic
Penny Award
CMN honors our mentors in the field of Children's Music through
the Magic Penny Award, named after the
song by Malvina Reynolds. Some of these mentors are with us today
and others have passed on, but the reverberations of their music
are still shaping what our children sing.
In 2005, we honored the work of Ruth Crawford Seeger
whose books of children's folk songs and suggestions for their
effective use in the classroom are still classics in schools,
libraries and music programs across the country. She was also a
gifted composer of serious orchestral and chamber music as well as
the wife of renowned musicologist Charles Seeger, mother of Mike
and Peggy Seeger, and stepmother of Pete Seeger.
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The Magic Penny Award,
named after the song by Malvina Reynolds, is a Children's
Music Network tribute to people in our community who have
dedicated their lives to empowering children through
music. CMN gives this award annually at our national
gatherings to honor the lifetime achievement of someone
whose work most embodies our mission. In October 1999 the
first award was given posthumously to Malvina herself,
through her daughter, Nancy Schimmel.
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