An Enduring Voice - Givens, Peter
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"An Enduring Voice" is the story of the builder and the subsequent owners of an early 17th century violin crafted in the Cremona, Italy region where the builders of these fine instruments found the best trees in in an area of the Italian Alps they called "The Singing Woods." This instrument travels from owner to owner across Europe, ending up in the hands of a young girl, Molly McCourtney, from Letterkenny in county Donegal in Northern Ireland who is mesmerized by the ballads of the British Isles taught to her by her Scottish grandmother and, at the same time, captivated by the scant few…mehr

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"An Enduring Voice" is the story of the builder and the subsequent owners of an early 17th century violin crafted in the Cremona, Italy region where the builders of these fine instruments found the best trees in in an area of the Italian Alps they called "The Singing Woods." This instrument travels from owner to owner across Europe, ending up in the hands of a young girl, Molly McCourtney, from Letterkenny in county Donegal in Northern Ireland who is mesmerized by the ballads of the British Isles taught to her by her Scottish grandmother and, at the same time, captivated by the scant few details she knows about the instrument's builder from a faded label inside. Molly and her fiddle become part of the great migration of Ulster Scotts who came to America prior to the Revolution, traveling the Great Wagon Road out of Philadelphia into Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Building a community with her Presbyterian congregation from Letterkenny, her musical heritage intertwines with that of other immigrants, including freed slaves, as the voice of her prized fiddle endures, now playing music of the world that its creator never imagined.
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Autorenporträt
Peter Givens earned an M.A. in American History from Western Carolina University, writing a thesis on Great Smoky Mountains National Park before beginning a 40-year career with the U.S. National Park Service, most of it on the Blue Ridge Parkway. He designed exhibits, wrote publications, represented the park in a multitude of public settings and played a prominent role for many years in the development of the Blue Ridge Music Center where the stories and exhibits are closely related to the themes throughout "An Enduring Voice." He designed and taught a class in Appalachian History at Virginia Western Community College for twelve years. These experiences and his attempts to play the music depicted here led to the writing of this book. Peter and his wife, Carole, live in Henrico, Virginia.