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Music lectures, webinars and workshops

 


Presented by Roger Hall, A.M.P.
(American Music Preservationist)

 


To discuss any of the lecture or workshop titles listed,
contact Mr. Hall -- click here



About the Lectures, Webinars and Workshops

All of the programs listed below are presented by Roger Lee Hall.

He is Director of the Center for American Music Preservation (CAMP), which has an extensive archive and its goal is to help preserve American music from the past.

Mr. Hall has vast experience as a musicologist, ethnomusicologist, music teacher,
singer, record producer, and music conductor.

For his extensive accomplishments in music, he has been listed in various directories such as: Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World.

He has spent over five decades working to preserve music from earlier America and has presented many music lectures and workshops which have received raves from the audiences

A few responses to his past music programs:

"Your lecture was enthusiastically received and I have heard nothing but very positive comments from registrants."
-- Dr. Robert Bishop, Director, Museum of American Folk Art, New York City.

"Thank you very much for such a delightful and informative lecture."
-- Mary Frazier, Braintree Historical Society, Braintree, Massachusetts.

Le = Lecture (from 60 to 90 minutes)

We= Webinar (from 60 to 90 minutes)

Wo= Workshop (from one hour to several hours)

A Special New Program!


01: "Goin' Home" - Remembering Songs From Your Past
[Lecture or Webinar]

Using the nostalgic title song from the past, this program is designed to help you recall your past life, both happy and sad, by "goin' home" again using songs. You might recall a favorite song from your own past, or from some other person in your past. Some helpful hints for choosing songs will be presented along with song examples from the speaker's past as examples to help others do the same when choosing their own favorite songs.

 Based on the book by Roger Lee Hall: "Gentle Peace - Songs For Survival"


 

I. EARLIER AMERICANA
(18th, 19th, 20th centuries)

Le= Lecture
We = Webinar (Online only)
Wo = Workshop

Each title has a disc available for purchase

02: "Old Stoughton" - The Story of America's Oldest Choral Society [Le or We]

Highlights about the oldest choral society in the USA -- The Old Stoughton Musical Society -- from its beginnings in 1786 to its bicentennial observance in 1986. Among the highlights are the concerts at the Centennial Celebration of 1886 and the concerts at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. The workshop will discuss more about the music and composers from the musical society's long history and its importance to American music history and the showing of a video about this oldest choral society.

Multimedia disc:  "Dedication" - Singing in Stoughton, 1762-1992

03: "Lincoln and Liberty" - Music from Abraham Lincoln's Era [Le or We] -
The lecture features stories about songs and hymns from Abraham Lincoln's lifetime, especially during the Civil War. The workshop has more detail about selective songs, and a few of the popular ones will be sung with those attending.

Multimedia disc: Lincoln and Liberty: Music of Abraham Lincoln's Era


 

 

II. FILM MEMORIES
(Musicals and Soundtracks)

Each title has a computer disc available for your purchase

 

04: "Hooray For Hollywood" - Memorable Movie Music [Le or We] - With audio and video examples, the lecture will look at selected movie soundtracks between 1933 and 1963. The workshop will highlight major film composers and then watch a one hour video program.  

Multimedia disc: "Hooray For Hollywood" - Memorable Movie Music

05: "High Hopes" - Great Movie Songs [Le or We] - a look at the popular movie tunes from the 1930s to 1960s and how they were used in the films. The workshop will discuss then watch some of the songs in video clips. There will be special attention given to the major movie lyricist,
Sammy Cahn (1913-1993), who received four Oscars for his movie songs, all of them recorded by Frank Sinatra.

This special CD celebrates the centennial of his birth. To read about it --- click here








06: The Naked City - Film Noir of the 1940s and 1950s [Le or We] -

A discussion of how music was used effectively along with the acting and cinematography to make the film memorable.

Here are the comments from those who watched a webinar on this subject in the past:

"Including the music, and the composer, as part of the experience--first time I've seen that. Bravo."

"Interesting to learn what was shared about the defining elements of Noir (and the better translation of the term), highlights in its history, and the like." 

"The presenter was very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about the subject matter."

"Well organized and interesting. Very knowledgeable presenter."

"Thank you for yet another fascinating and informative webinar!"

PDF Book: A Guide to Film Music: Songs and Scores (8th revised edition)

III. POPULAR SONGS

Each title has a book available:

07: "I Got Rhythm" - The Genius Of George Gershwin [Le or We]

This program will discuss the musical importance of both George and his lyricist brother Ira Gershwin and how they helped transform popular in the 1920s and 1930s. The focus will be on their songs fro Broadway and Hollywood. There will be video clips featuring some of their songs as part of this nostalgic look back at two of the best creators for the Great American Songbook.

 

 





08: Bill Ranlde in Cleveland: From Electric Elvis to The Shakers [Le or We] -

A nostalgic look back at one of the most popular disc jockeys in America in the 1950s and his promotion and first national TV appearance of Elvis Presley in 1956. The man who introduced Elvis was a popular Cleveland disc jockey, Bill Randle (1923-2004), who was called the "Top Jock" in the country by TIME magazine in 1955. Also, the program will feature his production of a massive 10 LP record set, "The Shaker Heritage" in 1961. Two of the LP records were devoted to Shaker music and later were published on a 2 CD set with 72 page booklet written and edited by Roger Hall and titled,

PDF Book: The Bill Randle Chronicles



IV. SHAKER MUSIC

 

 

 

 

09:  "Gentle Words" - The Meaning and Message of Shaker Music [Le, We, Wo] -

A discussion of music by American Shakers in the 19th and 20th centuries which have been re-discovered. For example: "Gentle Words," Shaker humility song composed by a Shaker woman in Kentucky. The workshop will focus on discussing and singing selected Shaker songs written by Shakers.

Book and CD: "Gentle Words" - The Meaning and Message of Shaker Music

 



 

10. "Tis the gift to be simple" - The Story of SIMPLE GIFTS

For several decades, Roger Hall has researched and recorded this popular Shaker dance song. The discussion will show how the Shaker dance song evolved from the 19th to 20th centuries and why it was later used in three separate U.S. Presidential Inaugurations in arrangements by Aaron Copland and John Williams. Also about the popular song, "Lord of the Dance," and the man who wrote it and based his song on the Shaker tune. The workshop will include recordings of the song and also ways this Shaker song can be used in concerts.

Two books on the subject by Roger L. Hall:

"Simple Gifts" - Great American Folk Song

The Story of "Simple Gifts" - Joseph Brackett's Shaker Dance Song

 






 


Over 50 years of lectures and workshops presented by Roger Hall

1973: "Songs and Dances of the Shakers" (first music lecture and concert)
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, January 17

1973: "Come Dance and Sing"
Shaker music lecture and concert at the Shaker Historical Society, Shaker Heights, Ohio.

1974: "Celestial Praises" - Shaker Bicentennial Conference and
First performance of a Shaker inspirational hymn from 1841,
at Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio

1974: "Oliver C. Hampton: Ohio Shaker Hymnodist" --
Research paper, American Musicological Society, Midwestern Chapter,
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

1975: "Shaker Hymnody"
Research paper, National Meeting of Hymn Society of America, Wittenberg University, Ohio.

1976: "Issachar Bates: Shaker Fifer and Tunesmith"
Research paper, National Conference of American Musicological Society, Washington, D.C.

1978: "Followers of the Lamb" - Shaker songs and hymns
Shaker music lecture and concert at the Shaker Museum, Old Chatham, New York

1978: "Welcome, Welcome"
Shaker music lecture and concert at the Elmira College Shaker Seminar in Enfield, New Hampshire

1979: "Isaac N. Youngs: The Ingenuity of a Shaker Craftsman" --
Research paper, Museum of American Folk Art, New York, New York

1980: "Old Stoughton in Old Boston" --
Research paper at "Musick in Old Boston" Festival for Jubilee 350 Celebration,
Old West Church, Boston, Massachusetts

1981: "The Humble Heart: A Pageant of Shaker Verse and Song" --
Shaker music lecture and concert at the Elmira College Shaker Seminar, Groton, Massachusetts.

1982: "Singing Utopias: Communal Music in Early America,"
Music lecture at the Museum of Our National Heritage, Lexington, Massachusetts.

1982 (Workshop) - "Symbols and Symmetry - Music, Art and Architecture of the Shakers" --
Heritage Series at Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, Sabbathday Lake, Maine.

1983 (Workshop) - "Early American Music" --
Kodaly Center, Newton, Massachusetts.

1983: "The Handel of Maine - The Musical Life of Supply Belcher" --
Research paper for the Maine Humanities Council Conference, Westbrook College, Portland, Maine.

1984: "Charles T. Griffes - A Centennial Tribute" --
Lecture and concert at the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Massachusetts.

1984: "Musical Iconography in Shaker Gift Drawings" --
Research paper, Museum of American Folk Art Symposium (Religious Folk Art in America), New York City.

1986: "Beautiful Dreamer - The Life and Music of Stephen Foster" --
Brookline Woman's Club, Brookline, Massachusetts.

1986: "Two Centuries of Choral Music in New England"--
Lecture and concert at the Museum of Our National Heritage, Lexington, Massachusetts.

1987 (Workshop) - Shaker Music -- Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village,
New Gloucester, Maine. Also presented in 1988 and 1989.

1990: "Singing Stoughton - The Story of America' Oldest Choral Society--
Braintree Historical Society, Braintree, Massachusetts.

1991: "The Genius of George Gershwin" --
Brookline Adult & Community Education Program, Brookline, Massachusetts.

2000: (Workshop) - "Tis Washington's Health - Music of George Washington's World" --
Old Fort Western, Augusta, Maine.

2003 (Workshop) - "The Sidewalks of New York: Old Songs and Stories " --
Conkling Hall, Rensselaerville, New York

2003: "Bing and Bob in Hollywood: A Centennial Tribute to Bing Crosby and Bob Hope" --
Newton Free Library, Newton Centre, Massachusetts

2004: "Hooray for Hollywood": Memorable Movie Music" --
Bridgewater Public Library, Bridgewater, Massachusetts

2004: "Hooray for Hollywood" --
Newton Free Library, Massachusetts.

2004: "Ode to Contentment: Travels of a Shaker Missionary and Tunesmith" --
Research paper, Communal Studies Conference, Hancock Shaker Village, Massachusetts.

2005: "A Centennial Celebration of Harold Arlen, Dorothy Fields, Jule Styne" --
Newton Free Library, Newton Centre, Massachusetts.

2005: "The Lore and Legends of New England Songs" --
Bridgewater Public Library, Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

2008: "Remembering Radio" --
Franklin Public Library, Franklin, Massachusetts.

2009: "Lincoln and Liberty: Music of Abraham Lincoln's Era"--
Stoughton Public Library, Stoughton, Massachusetts.

 

2009: "Runnin' Wild: Molasses and Music Merriment" --
Lecture in the Stoughton Reads Together series, Stoughton Public Library.

2009: "Gentle Words" - Shaker Music in the 20th Century --
Scott Swank Lecture Series, Canterbury Shaker Village, Canterbury, New Hampshire.

2010: Patriotic Songs in Early Canton --
Canton Historical Society, Canton, Massachusetts.

2011: E.A. Jones: Stoughton's Music Man and
release of the new DVD, "How Beautiful Upon The Mountains" --
Stoughton Historical Society, Stoughton, Massachusetts.

2012: "The Humble Heart" - Music of the Harvard Shakers --
Harvard Historical Society, Harvard, Massachusetts

2013: "Lincoln and Liberty" - Music of the Civil War Era --
NCCHP, Granville, Massachusetts

2013: "Break Forth Into Singing" - Evolution of an Enfield Shaker Anthem
Research paper, Spring Forum at the Shaker Museum, Enfield, New Hampshire

2013: "Celestial Praises" - A Celebration of Shaker Spirituals --
Concord Community Music School, Concord, New Hampshire (for new CD release)

2013: "High Hopes - A Centennial Celebration of Songs by Sammy Cahn" -
Newton Free Library, Newton, Massachusetts (new CD release)

2017: "Going Home" - Songs of Survival
Burlington Public Library, Burlington, Massachusetts

2017: "Give Good Gifts" - The Simplicity of Shaker Music
Canterbury Shaker Village, Canterbury, New Hampshire

2017: "Heavenly Music" - Hymns of United Order (Latter Day Saints),
North Union Shakers, and Zoar --
Research paper, Communal Studies Association Conference, Zoar, Ohio

2018: "Hooray For Hollywood" - Memorable Movie Music--
Walpole Public Library, Walpole, Massachusetts

2020: KING KONG: From Story to Soundtrack --
Online Webinar for Greater Boston Film Classics Club

2021: RAISING KANE: The Making of CITIZEN KANE - Classic Film and Score --
Online Webinar for Greater Boston Film Classics Club

2021: The Golden Age of New York Radio's Disc Jockeys --
Online Webinar for New York Adventure Club

2021: New York City Film Noir: Legacy of Hollywood's Darkest Genre in Gotham
Online Webinar for New York Adventure Club




2022: "May We Ever Be United"
For 200th Anniversary of North Union Shakers in Ohio (1822-1889)
Sponsored by the Shaker Historical Society, Shaker Heights, Ohio
Presented at the Shaker Heights Public Library




2022: "Gentle Words" - Preserving Shaker Music -
Research paper, Communal Studies Association Conference, Canterbury Shaker Village, NH





2023: Bill Randle in Cleveland: From Electric Elvis to The Shakers

 


2020-2024: Otto Kahn: A Personal Connection with the Gilded Age Music Patron
Online Webinar for The New York Adventure Club

This webinar was based partly on a memoir by Roger Hall available as a pdf book:

 

"Crazy Rhythm" - Memories of Eastern Military Academy and Oheka Castle

 

 


 

To discuss fees and scheduling
for any lectures or workshops,
write to Roger Hall at pinetreepro@aol.com

See his biographical profile -- click here

 

 


Mr. Hall has written and compiled an impressive total of 60 music collections
in the series - PineTree Multimedia Editions (PTME)

To see the complete list of titles -- click here

 

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