bicentennial. For the programs on Ruth Crawford Seeger I sent a number of questions to now-deceased Charles Seeger-teacher and later husband of Ruth Crawford and father of folk singers Mike, Peggy, and Penelope and, by an earlier marriage, Pete-and asked him to record his answers on a cassette. This he did on September 17, 1976, enlisting Peggy's aid in the project; parts of the cassette were used in the 1976 series and in the 1985 series, "Music Chicago Style." Charles's and Peggy's memoirs, often meandering, provide unique and very personal insight into the many facets of Ruth Crawford Seeger: the composer of striking dissonant works, the folklorist and associate of Alan Lomax, and the dedicated and gifted teacher Ruth's important concert works-including the Sandburg songs, Piano Preludes, and String Quartet -clustered around the year 1930, after which she abandoned concert composition for work in American folk music, transcribing and arranging songs for Alan Lomax and publishing volumes of her own arrangements intended for the young. The opening questions dealt with this transition. Charles and Peggy gave several, sometimes divergent, explanations and returned to the subject several times during the interview.