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Born in East Baltimore. Durham Street. On\nwe moved to Rutland Avenue, 900 Block, and from the 900 Block we moved to 425\nNorth Caroline Street. Still on Caroline Street.\n\nMEGAN COE: And what did your mother do?\n\nLLEWELLYN HUSKETH WALKER: She [Mrs. Lovey Husketh] was a musician, a piano\nteacher, an organist. She was a lecturer, she was a very good, concerned about\nher church and her community. So she did lots of community work along with\nteaching piano.\n\nMEGAN COE: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=0.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And where, do you know where she was born and raised?\n\nLLEWELLYN HUSKETH WALKER: Born in Annapolis, Maryland, but she was reared in\nBaltimore, her mother. She was adopted by this Emily who was, well, we say Negro\nwhen you used that word. She was a free Negro from West Virginia.\n\nAnd her mother must have been a maid for some people in Annapolis. And she had\nthis child. She was about to drown her, and they found her doing it, and they\ntook the child from her.\n\nAnd the police knew Emily, of course, from the police station, and asked her did\nshe want a baby. In those days you could just take a child. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=60.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You didn't have to\npay for adoption. And she said: \"No children, I don't want any children.\" And\nshe changed, thought about it again, she went over and looked, and she fell in\nlove, and she took this little girl and reared her and gave her the best\neducation at that time that anybody could get. School, piano lessons, elocution,\nbought her fine clothes, she traveled, and she was well cared for and loved.\n\nAs a youngster she was very active in music. They found out she had a good\nmemory, and in those days you did a lot of dramatic reading of poetry and prose,\nand that was very popular at that time. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=120.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And she did that, and she was called to\ndo that. Plus, she was called often to play the piano.\n\nNow she studied her piano from the Washington Conservatory of Music in\nWashington. She studied under Professor Charles Russ, who was the organist at\nMadison Street Presbyterian. It's the Atlantic Church now. She did at one time\ntook some courses from Peabody. As I told you, they didn't know what [race] she\nwas. [Laughter]\n\nMEGAN COE: So your mother was of mixed race or?\n\nLLEWELLYN HUSKETH WALKER: Yes. Mixed family. Mixed marriage or mixed whatever. [Laughter]\n\nMEGAN COE: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=180.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So do you know about at what time period it was that she took courses\nat Peabody?\n\nLLEWELLYN HUSKETH WALKER: When she was born? 1875. Born January the 5th, 1875.\n\nMEGAN COE: Do you know when she took the classes at Peabody?\n\nLLEWELLYN HUSKETH WALKER: Oh, I cannot say. That I'm not too sure. But it had to\nbe between this time, 1875, about ten, fifteen, let's say, fifteen more years\nlater. That would be about eighteen, whenever Peabody was open. I'm not too\ncertain about that exact time.\n\nMEGAN COE: Was your mother still performing when you were a young child?\n\nLLEWELLYN HUSKETH WALKER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=240.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh yes. You see, she opened her first school down at\nGlen Burnie. She went to Morgan [College], she was a member of the first\ngraduating class at Morgan, and then she took a job down there. They called,\nwell, they called it Glen Burnie, but it was really Furnace Branch.\n\nAnd she worked down there in a tavern that was all boarded up except this one\nroom that was used for teaching all the grades. And she fell in love with the\npeople, they fell in love with her. And those children from that group came to\nher to take music lessons. I heard from one of them about ten years ago, asked\nme could I recommend somebody to play the organ for down there. They were her\ngreat love, and whenever you visited, the table was set up fine.\n\n\"Miss Lovey and her children are coming.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=300.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Just loved, she had a lot of love for\npeople, and they gave it back to her.\n\nMEGAN COE: So did she teach school all of her life?\n\nLLEWELLYN HUSKETH WALKER: No. She stopped teaching. I think she decided that she\ncould teach piano, because that was a long distance and they weren't paying\nhardly anything, you know. Cause when she lived with the people down there,\nsomebody would take her and then another family would take her to pay for her,\nyou know, to feed and whatever. So she decided she would take her piano, she\nstarted doing dramatic reading and piano, do her own concerts, which she did.\n\nAnd she went up as far as Harrisburg Pennsylvania, because she had some\nrelatives up there.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=360.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Then later on, she started teaching, she would go to people's houses to teach\ntheir pupils. But when she married and had children, she found that she needed\nto be home for them always, so\n\nher people started coming to her. And they were coming to her from all over the\ncity, northwest, from out Glen Burney, from everywhere. And her house all day\nSaturday and right after school was just crowded with children.\n\nHer last report she spoke to somebody, she had seventy-five pupils, and she said\nshe could not take anymore. She just had to stop, and maybe she would give some\nof her pupils to some of her good pupils that were teaching, and this is how.\nBut she was well liked and very popular. Very strict. She didn't have any\nfoolishness with her teaching.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=420.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You came, you had to practice. If you didn't practice, I can see her many times\nleaving. She'll say, \"I'll be right back.\" Find that little boy's house, or\nlittle girl's house. When yourmother come in from work, she'd walk up there and\ntake that fifty cents and give it. Say, \"Your child is not practicing. I cannot\nteach him. You're just wasting your time. You get him to practice; I'll gladly\nteach.\" But I had seen her do so many times. And yet there were others very\nanxious to learn.\n\nShe taught, I can name twenty-five pupils that she taught that became organists\nof big churches here in Baltimore.\n\nMEGAN COE: Wow!\n\nLLEWELLYN HUSKETH WALKER: Twenty-five. There are many others. I figure if my\nsister were well, I'd be able to tell you more. Because I moved up here, and she\nwas down there with my mother. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=480.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But one fellow became the head music teacher at\nShaw University. Another girl I know she was the supervisor of music, Molly\nMiller, very fine and an organist in Madison Street Presbyterian Church. Another\none, let me see, her name is Arngie Wiles, fine musician.\n\nOh I could go on and on and on. Jamesetta Holloman. She had her doctorate in\nmusic from Juilliard. She was a child prodigy. My mother started her.\n\nMEGAN COE: Did you and your siblings take lessons?\n\nLLEWELLYN HUSKETH WALKER: Lessons. All of us. Everybody studied piano. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=540.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And it\nwas kind of hard, as I think I told you, we wanted to practice, but she had so\nmany pupils we had very little time to get to the piano. So my brother and I\nwere given violin lessons. We took that.\n\nBut my mother found my brother was doing well, I wasn't doing, and I guess she\nchanged. Well, I took piano, but she thought my voice. I should really study\nvoice instead of just the piano.\n\nI knew the piano. I know music, but I could not play like my sister or my\nmother. I can tell you when you're wrong. [Laughter.] I'm trying to think. And\nmy husband, the fellow I married studied piano. He played for his church until\nhe went to Howard University.\n\nMEGAN COE: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=600.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Did you have other family members who were involved in music?\n\nLLEWELLYN HUSKETH WALKER: My sister. Quite a musician. She studied under Mr.\nShrubb of Peabody. Very fine pianist.\n\nShe, I think, she appeared one time. She played the \"Moonlight Sonata.\" I was\ntrying to tell you about that the other day. And she played it by no music right\nstraight through and won a prize. But she was a musician.\n\nMy mother belonged to the Negro National Music, what did we call it? Negro\nNational Music Series, no, Convention. They met. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=660.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was formed by the great\nviolinist Charles Cameron [White]. He organized this National Negro Music\nSeries. They met every summer in August, and they met at different big cities,\nand all the musicians, all over the United States, came.\n\nMy mother at one time was the secretary. She was quite a number of years the\nsecretary of it. But that was something the musicians in Baltimore, they would\ngo. You'd see them going. You'd see fifteen or twenty of them leaving here going\nto the convention.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=720.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And they would have the workshops. They would have presenting each year, they\nhad presented some outstanding pupil, and then they had the big banquet. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=780.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And of\ncourse they had a day naturally when you'd go visiting, to visit and tour the\nvarious places. But this was every summer\n\nWe went to all the concerts. I don't care where it was, how much it cost, my\nmother always found the money. You were going to concerts. And she said, \"you\ncan go to go sleep, but you're going.\"\n\nWe lived and breathed music in that house. Music from early in the morning until\nlate at night. She either had her pupils, or she had a group come in from her\nchoir, a certain group that she wanted to work with, or it'd be somebody who\nwanted a little help with their voice. She wasn't teaching voice, but she would\nplay and help them, with them because.\n\nThen she had quite a number of them that studied not only the voice, but they\nstudied piano from her. I tell you something else. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=840.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In her church work, now you\nhad no foolishness, that church being on a choir was a big job. You weren't\nthere to play. It was like school. They had their prayer before they started,\nthen they get into their business, and then they started. Almost everybody in\nthat choir I think could actually direct that choir.\n\nThey knew the piano. They'd learned to read music. All the things. And it was a\njoy. Sometimes I'd just go to listen to them. It was like school, and they loved it.\n\nMEGAN COE: What church was that?\n\nLLEWELLYN HUSKETH WALKER: Peoples Christian Church, but eventually its name\nbecame Memorial Baptist. Right there, Preston and Caroline Street. You see my\npeople are very emotional, and we were just a Christian church. The minister\nthought that we just might as well change and be a Baptist. [Laughter]\n\nMEGAN COE: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=900.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How did the music in relation to the church and being religious, how\ndid that bring music ?\n\nLLEWELLYN HUSKETH WALKER: Well, if you were coming up in my race, church was\nwhere you went. You had no question about whether you were going or not.\nSaturday you got your clothes together, and\n\nSunday morning you got ready for either Sunday school. Sometimes it would be in\nthe morning, and sometimes Sunday school would be after church. But whenever,\nyou were going. Nobody said, \"I'm not going. I don't feel like it.\" There was no\nquestion in my house. You went to church because my mother was an organist.\n\nShe got up and got breakfast, and we ate breakfast as a family. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=960.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We had our\nprayers on our knees every Sunday morning. Sometime my father was there because\nhe was a Pullman porter, wasn't always home. But when he was there, the family.\nThen my mother would have the dinner ready except for cooking the potatoes and\nthe Jell-O. That's why I hate Jell-O now. We had Jell-O most every Sunday for\ndessert, but anyhow.\n\nWe went to church, and sometimes in those days they had church in the evening.\nEleven o'clock and then again at three. So that meant, you know, you didn't have\nto go to all of them. Unless there was a special service for children or some\nspecial entertainment was coming for that evening, your mother would let you\nhave the evening Sunday because we would take walks and visit our little friends.\n\nWhen she was free, we would take long car rides on the streetcar. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=1020.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The longest\ndistance in the city. She never did, deserted her family. She was a most\nremarkable person. I don't know. I still today can't see how she managed to do\nall that she did. I really don't.\n\nMEGAN COE: You mentioned last time how sometimes on Sundays or holidays you\nwould go to friends' houses, and go around to different people's houses and\npeople would play the piano.\n\nLLEWELLYN HUSKETH WALKER: Oh from the church?\n\nMEGAN COE: Yes. Tell us about that.\n\nLLEWELLYN HUSKETH WALKER: Oh, well everybody, all my friends played the piano,\nor they studied voice, or they played the violin, and they went out together. So\nwe would go to church. We would go to our special church, but in the evening, at\nsix o'clock, they have what they call, some people called it Epworth League, and\nsome people called it BYPU. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=1080.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And we'd go. And everybody had, you had a little\nscripture to say, and before you'd get in there sometimes: would you play the\npiano program, or would you recite, or would you do this, or?\n\nSo we went, everybody was doing, taking part in the program. But we were happy\nto be there because they're young people and a lot of sharp looking boys.\n[Laughter] But we would do that, that was over I guess about seven-thirty, and\nwe started walking home, and we would stop at your house and play the piano and\ntalk and laugh. Then we'd go up a little further. We'd stop at somebody else's\nhouse, and we'd stop and we'd chat, we'd play the piano, we'd all sing. And then\nwe'd move. I think my house was about the last house on Caroline Street, and\nthey would play the piano.\n\nWell, they were happy to get to my house because my mother had a baby grand, and\neverybody wanted. But that's the fun we had on Sunday. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=1140.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My mother didn't have to\nwonder where we were\n\nbecause we were all with a group, and that's what we did. And then late in the\nevening was your time to get ready for your school.\n\nSo, and you were speaking about some of the entertainment. What did I tell you\nabout? On Saturday did I tell you we went to dancing class?\n\nMEGAN COE: Was this when you were a child?\n\nLLEWELLYN HUSKETH WALKER: Yes. When we were growing up and they're teenagers.\nMr. Ellsworth Toomey had a dance class, and you were invited. You didn't just\ncome because you wanted to learn. You were invited.\n\nAnd every Saturday from 2 to 5 you went to dancing classes of good manners and\nhow to behave yourself with the dance and with the fellows and whatever. Very\nentertaining. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=1200.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And between that time and let's say around April, he'll start\ngetting some dance lessons together. He had his voice pupils and the dance\ngroup, and he would have what they call May Ball at the Lyric [Theater] . The\nonly Black that could use, now that's one word I don't like, but they use it so\nmuch. He was the only Negro that could use the Lyric Theater. He was a good\nfriend to Mr. [Freddie] Huber, who was in charge. He was the president or whatever.\n\nBut that was a big affair, and that Lyric was jammed and packed with mothers and\nchildren. And after we were presented, everybody got a big basket of flowers for\ntheir dance and for singing or whatever. And believe it or not, I sang part of\nCarmen. I can't. Every time I think about it, I just can't believe. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=1260.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But he said\nI could sing it, and he was a good, very fine teacher. But.\n\nHe'd have a dance just for his pupils in the Blue Room in the Lyric every year.\nThe mothers and their children.\n\nMEGAN COE: Wow. That's great.\n\nLLEWELLYN HUSKETH WALKER: Let me see what else. Oh, my mother's advanced pupils,\nafter they got to a place where they were very advanced and where she felt that\nshe had given them as much as she could, she'd send them to Ellsworth Toomey or\nW. Lewellyn Wilson. Or sometimes they were at the age where they were ready to\ngo to college, and she sent them to Howard.\n\nAnd Howard I knew the professors at Howard, and I have a dear friend, Todd\nDuncan, he was the one that was in Porgy and Bess. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=1320.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He said every new, every\nBaltimore music student that came from Baltimore, because they were well prepared.\n\nMEGAN COE: Once you were older, as a young adult, what did you do? Where did you\ngo for entertainment and musical entertainment? Where did you go to see\nmusicians perform?\n\nLLEWELLYN HUSKETH WALKER: Oh, we went to all the concerts. When I was in, I\nthink I was a young adult, I went down to the Ford [Theater] even though we\ncouldn't sit downstairs. I went to a lot of the plays because I liked dramatics\nand I was in dramatics at school. Very concerned. We went to the Lyric.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=1380.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My mother could always find money for concerts. Foolishness no. But if it was a\nticket for a concert, and they weren't much. When you look at the price of, but\nit depended, it was the time of the year. But fifty cents was a lot of money\nthen. [Laughter] Yes. Fifty cents. You children look at fifty cents, throw it in\nthe street now.\n\nBut we, I don't think it was much. Went to the ballets, I went to the operas. My\nmother sang with A. Jack Thomas who was an outstanding musician. He was the only\nBlack that directed the, at that time, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. And he\nhad a group called the Aeolian Chorus. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=1440.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And she sang, my mother had a very, very\nrich contralto voice. My sister too. They sang in the club.\n\nBut my sister didn't sing that, she sang somewhere else. But my mother sang with\nthat group, and I was just reading here where she sang with the Samuel Coleridge\nTaylor Chorus. Some fellow who was a British, Afro-British writer in Britain and London.\n\nSo she not only taught, but she engaged in concerts. And as I said, many times\nyou went to concerts. You didn't have time for no foolishness.\n\nSo we knew good music. Now we liked jazz. But we used to laugh when mother was\ntrying to play some jazz music, and we would just sit off and laugh. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=1500.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cause, it\nall had a little feel, a taste of classical music in it. [Laughter] But she was\nplaying, trying to make it jazzy.\n\nBut I don't think there was anything that went on. Most of our concerts were at\nSharp Street [Memorial United Methodist Church] . That's over in West Baltimore.\nMost of our outstanding people like Todd Duncan and Marian Anderson, Roland\nHayes, and this lady, Camille Nickerson. They were there, came. Oh, there were\nso many. Oh, a little girl, Phillipa Schuyler. She was a child prodigy. A\npianist. She would come.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=1560.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But we used the Sharp Street, I think because acoustics there must have been\nvery good. Now later on they started having affairs at school auditoriums, but\nit didn't have the class. Because when you went to a recital, you wore recital\nclothes. You had your hair fixed up, and you had your hair covered with a lace piece.\n\nAnd the [last] time I was at Lyric Theater, I was there for something, I don't\nknow, Messiah or whatever, and these youngsters came in on the first floor in\nthe orchestra. They had on dungarees. It cut me up in here. I couldn't believe\nit. I said this I cannot believe. But that's with the change of time. The '60s\ndid all of that.\n\nYou know that don't you? You don't know because you, you're a little young. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=1620.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But\nit had. But I just loved to see my mother get ready for concerts. She always had\nbeautiful clothes. And the one thing that impressed me, her shoes, her feet used\nto hang over her shoes. And I always said when I grow up I want my shoe, my foot\nnever did that. I wanted my feet to hang, you know, over my shoe like hers.\n\nBut many of her dresses she kept and she had a friend who was a seamstress. She\nmade many of our party dresses from some of her dresses.\n\nMEGAN COE: Oh wow.\n\nLLEWELLYN HUSKETH WALKER: I can see a pink crepe. I can see dark blue satin. No,\nit wasn't satin. Yes, that was satin. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=1680.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But she was very thrifty, but her clothes\nwere very rich clothes. When I say good taste, she had good taste.\n\nSo going to a concert was just like going to church. [Laughter]\n\nMEGAN COE: When you were older, did you go to clubs and see jazz, see more jazz\nmusicians or?\n\nLLEWELLYN HUSKETH WALKER: The clubs. Oh yes. Well, I think I had finished\ncollege or was in college, I don't know which. But I'm sure because my husband\nwas at Howard. And they would have outstanding musicians to come to the Comedy\nClub, and we went there. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=1740.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Beautiful order, no confusion, just like any other place.\n\nAnd as I told you, people from Washington were coming to Baltimore because they\ndidn't have open the nightclubs like ours. Then there was the Sphinx Club. Then\nwe had another one called the Merry Go Round. What's the other one called?\n\nBut I do know that they brought outstanding violinists or singers or maybe two\npeople, not a whole group. Maybe a small combo entertained. And you sat and you\nwere entertained. Then at a certain time then that was over, then they'd have\nanother group to come in.\n\nSometimes you'd stay to the second session. You know. But well behaved. It was a\njoy to be out. That was our treat on the weekends.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=1800.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Then we had dances. The sororities and the fraternities and different clubs\nwould give dances. And a long time ago it was an invitation thing, then it got\nto a place where they asked you to pay. I can remember we never paid to go to a\ndance. They liked us because they knew both of us liked to dance and we enjoyed dances.\n\nBut we had club called the Guardsmen, and there was one fellow would invite you\nand say, \"well we don't have Lewellyn or Norris down, where are they? Oh, well,\nI'll take her. I'll take them.\" That's the way, you know, when you were popular\nand people enjoyed having you at their dances.\n\nWomen beautifully dressed. Fine music. And after that, sometimes they would feed\nyou there, and then sometimes they just, after the dance, they'd come to my\nhouse. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=1860.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We'd have breakfast, something else to drink, you know. And just a very,\nI would say a good life, very good life.\n\nMEGAN COE: In what other ways, in your adult life, once you were married, did\nyou have music in your life?\n\nLLEWELLYN HUSKETH WALKER: Any other time. Well, I can't say. I can't think any\nother time. Let me see. I studied with Mr. Toomey, and that was every week after school.\n\nMEGAN COE: When did you study with Mr. Toomey?\n\nLLEWELLYN HUSKETH WALKER: Oh I stayed with him I guess about, oh I guess about\neight or nine years. Because I would see him sometimes downtown, and he'd say,\n\"You're getting too grown up for me.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=1920.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'll never forget.\n\nBut you see I had my high school activities. We had W. Llewelyn Wilson, who was\na very fine musician. He was the only high school teacher that presented\noperettas. Now put that down to remember, Pied Piper and the Flying Dutchman. No\nother high school did it, but we did it. A big performance. He not only taught\nthe course. He had to voice special singers. Anne Brown, who was a very\noutstanding musician, she was one of them. He directed the orchestra. It was a big.\n\nSo high school took up a lot of my time. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=1980.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I never got home until six o'clock any\nday. There was so much going on that I was in everything, believe it or not, and\nI enjoyed. And my mother was happy that I was.\n\nI was trained. Why should I be trained to dance or to speak and then don't do\nanything with it? [Laughter] As a result, my children love music. Both of my, my\nolder son, who is a bishop now, studied piano, but he had so much homework, he\ndidn't have time to practice. So in the morning I'd say, \"Well, practice.\" My\nhusband said, \"Morning is no time to wake up the neighbors with the piano.\" But\nhe learned enough to use it for his liturgies that they have to read and study.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=2040.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My oldest son would be up there studying from his Bibles and singing his various\nmusic. My second son would be down on the first floor doing his chores, and the\nmusic would be jumping, and I'd be in the middle, and I'd say how can I stand\nit. I felt like I ought to put my clothes on and go out. But then I thought\nabout it, and I said, well, they're in the house. They're not out in the street.\n\nBut they both, my young son knows jazz very well. He knows all of them. And we\nhave gone to all the jazz concerts. Any that come to Baltimore or close by, we\nare there. My older son, of course, he likes classical. He's in New York and\ngets to see all the fine operas and whatever you want. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=2100.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Of course they have quite\na lot of them in Long Island where he is.\n\nBut we just had music. We have music in the house. We got records back there of\npeople. Records upstairs that high. [Laughter] And tapes. I never learned to\nwork those tapes.\n\nMEGAN COE: I know when I talked to you last week, you told me that your mother\nworked almost every day.\n\nLLEWELLYN HUSKETH WALKER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=2160.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Every day except Monday. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,\nFriday, and Saturday morning she had kindergarteners. It was precious to see\nthem come in. And they, she was teaching composition then. I'll never forget. I\nrun into people sometimes when I'm out at lunch or somewhere. And they say, \"oh,\nI remember Miss Lovey.\" I didn't say who I was. \"This is Lewellyn Walker. Oh,\nshe Miss Husketh's daughter.\" You know, that's what they say. Well, she taught\nme composition. Well, now that was unusual. She had her Matthews, which was a\nregular piano book. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=2220.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I got it right there. . And everybody had to play the\nhymnal, the church book.\n\nEverybody. That was something, whether you were good or bad, you learned it. And\nthen she had, you had your little notebook for composition. Very important.\nThere was no foolishness.\n\nNow Saturday evening, I guess about, I would say about six o'clock she would\nhave finished. She would take some of those pupils that had to come a long\ndistance on Saturday. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=2280.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Then all those that, because most of her pupils came right\nafter school. Then she had some older people that came in the morning before\nthey went to work.\n\nThere were some maids. And I've got to tell you about, this is very important.\nIn the choir, they would come in. She would have, sometimes she'd have the choir\nto come to the house, and there was a man, a short, stocky, dark fellow. I can't\nforget him. Mr. Brock. And most of the black people have natural voices, good\nvoices. He did not know how to read, nor did he know how to write, but he wanted\nto be in the choir and he wanted to sing, and they knew he had a voice. If you\nhad heard his voice, you would say somebody had trained him. He had the most\nbeautiful bass that you ever seen.\n\nAnd when he sang. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=2340.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Of course, he learned. You had to teach him the words. He\nheard the music enough. And when he sang, he put his soul in it. And the church\nwould get upset. They would be laughing and they would be clapping and crying\nbecause he sang with all that feeling that the people in our church. You don't\nknow so much because you're Catholic. But when we have the feel of the spirit,\nwe begin to let it out. You have to with crying or shouting or clapping your hands.\n\nMEGAN COE: When your mother didn't work, on the Mondays, what did she do?\n\nLLEWELLYN HUSKETH WALKER: Monday was her rest day. And she would, of course, she\nsaw to it we got to school. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=2400.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's why I say she was remarkable. She got up, got\nthree of us out to school, and then she had her time. And sometimes, before she\nwent downtown, she would be interviewed by some of the preachers. The ministers\nall came to my mother's house because, you see, our ministers they know that --\nI heard one minister say in a workshop three fourths of the service is your music.\n\nAnd it's true. You don't have good music, you just might as well give up. So she\nwould interview them. Then she would go downtown. She would demonstrate a piano\nfor Kunkel Music Piano down there every year. Somebody wanted to buy a piano,\nsome of her pupils, and she would demonstrate it.\n\nThen she would, maybe she'd go to the music store on Howard, Cathedral Street. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=2460.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I\ncan't name it, but I can see it just as plain as day. She would go there, buy\nthe music for some of her pupils, or see what's new. Then she'd go to the\nmovies. And that was her relaxing.\n\nThat was the only day that we would come home from school and mother was not\nhome. She was always home every day, but she had to have her Monday off.\n\nMEGAN COE: The church choir and things like that, was your mother the leader of\nthe choir?\n\nLLEWELLYN HUSKETH WALKER: Oh, the choir. Oh yes. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=2520.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You see, many times the\norganist was the director too. And then sometimes they would have a director and\nthe organist. But in many times my mother was the director, as well as the piano\nand the organist.\n\nAnd, well, I tell you my church, and I have to say it because it's true. It had\nsome beautiful natural singing voices. Every Christmas Eve my church sang up and\ndown the streets. That's right after World War I. Now I don't know what stopped\nit. I don't know what interfered, but I can hear, I could almost hear my\nmother's voice. Because we would go to bed, and we'd try to wait for her to come\nin, come down the street. You could get her contralto. They did that every year,\nand they still are doing it.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=2580.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Doctors at Hopkins have expected it. So every year they send this invitation,\nand say what time they're going to have their reception for the choir. And many\nof the people were in just my choir, but there would be people from other places\nthat knew we went, and they would come and join that choir, and sing through\nHopkins [Hospital].\n\nMy girlfriend was there sick one year, and she said she heard this glorious\nmusic. She couldn't imagine that, and she looked up and found she recognized so\nmany people, and she found it was my church. They've been doing it now. Other\nchoirs did it, not only mine, but I know mine went to Hopkins.\n\nMEGAN COE: This was, at what church was that?\n\nLLEWELLYN HUSKETH WALKER: Memorial Baptist. And at first she called it Peoples\nChristian Church, and then when they moved up here, they decided they should\nchange their name and call it Memorial Baptist Church.\n\nMEGAN COE: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=2640.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Are you still a member of the church?\n\nLLEWELLYN HUSKETH WALKER: I'm still there. Yeah. I can't say I'm ashamed, but I\nwas a mother, and I didn't like being away from my sons too much. So I never\nsang in the choir. I did work for the church. I did little special jobs. I was\nthe historian for the church and different things. But as far as singing in the\nchoir, I did not. And I regret it because if you don't use your voice, you lose\nit. And if you hear me singing, you'd never think I studied music. I'm telling\nyou it's awful. God gives you this talent, you're supposed to use it.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=2700.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We had one named Charles Stanley. They presented the Messiah and the Seven Last\nWords every year, and I'm telling you. They would have different music pupils\nfrom different churches that would sing with the choir when they presented it.\n\nI tell you what else. On Sunday mornings you'd have a guest singer. You'd have\nsomebody come from another church to entertain. Just sing. Not entertain, just\nsing you know.\n\nMEGAN COE: Was that common? Was it common for churches to come together and do\ndifferent activities and things?\n\nLLEWELLYN HUSKETH WALKER: Do they get together? Oh yes. Very devoted. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=2760.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Like\nwomen's day, they would meet across here. Then they met somewhere else. My\nchurch would come up there. And way out on Loch Raven was another church. And\nthey would have a joint session on women's day. And they would have big\nprograms. Very close. The churches were very close and caring. I have always\nfound it.\n\nIf somebody like to have a little trouble, a little church, somebody just\nbeginning to start, then the big church would go there and meet and help them,\nyou know, with the program, and the money. [Laughter] Bring the music.\n\nI'm trying to think of another little group. My mother had a group down at the\nchurch called the Singing Association of Men. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=2820.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think there were women in that\ngroup, but most of those people from my church are from Virginia, North\nCarolina, and the different southern places, and they were very happy to go back\nin, little country places in Maryland. Go back and take their music back to them.\n\nSo they'd go down, get in a bus, and they would go down there and have a great\nbig show, sing all the glorious music. And when I say they would sing, cause my\nmother didn't have no foolishness. She didn't teach chorus, but she knew it. And\nshe would teach. Then after they entertained, then they would have what's called\na promenade. You know what that is?\n\nMEGAN COE: It's like a dance.\n\nLLEWELLYN HUSKETH WALKER: Where they'd dance and they'd strut. But that was\ntheir life. They enjoyed it.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=2880.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505/transcript/38496/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[END OF INTERVIEW]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44174/file/117505#t=2940.0,3000.0"}]}]}]}