When was ashokan farewell written

The song is a thoroughly Catskills tune, the story notes. It was named for the Ashokan summer camp, as well as the Ashokan Reservoir in Ulster county and the drowned town of the same name beneath the reservoir's waters:.

By a guy from the Bronx. Which is not to say that the writing process was strictly a matter of craftsmanship. Sickles, whose name attached to the 25th Cavalry Reg. Barnard C. Gardner presentation elsewhere on our web site. The melody plays on her home page that I came across while researching the Sgt. Gardner story. And instead of progressing primarily stepwise to adjacent notes as a folk song might, the melody outlines arpeggios and contains octave leaps. These traits make it far better suited to instruments than to the voice.

Any similarities, such as the octave leap, are anecdotal and unsubstantial, and the assertion is unfair to Ungar. Ungar has noted the potential irony of this Civil War theme song being written in the form of a Scottish lament by a Jew from the Bronx, but rightly concludes that it makes sense in the context of our American heritage.

I was having trouble making the transition from a secluded woodland camp with a small group of people who needed little excuse to celebrate the joy of living, back to life as usual, with traffic, newscasts, telephones and impersonal relationships.

By the time the tune took form, I was in tears. I kept it to myself for months, unable to fully understand the emotions that welled up whenever I played it. I had no idea that this simple tune could affect others in the same way.