{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/iiif/sj19k46k60/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Elizabeth Day oral history, 2002 August 22"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/008/original/peabody-institute.logo.large.horizontal.blue.cropped.png?1549570058","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":[" Elizabeth Day (1920-2012) was a pianist, organist, and music educator. She played with the United Service Organization (USO) entertaining military personnel during World War II. Day studied at the Juilliard School of Music and earned a degree in music theory at what is now Morgan State University. She taught in Baltimore County Public Schools, including Bear Creek Elementary and Sollers Point Senior High. She founded and ran the Betty Day Trio, a musical ensemble that performed at social gatherings, and performed at the Arena Players. In this interview with Elizabeth Schaaf, Day discusses her USO tours in the Pacific and her career as a music teacher. Her husband, Joe Day, played jazz trumpet for Tracy McCleary's bands at the Royal Theater. (Abstract)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":[" 2002-08-22 (created)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":[" Day, Elizabeth, 1920-2012 (Interviewee)"," Schaaf, Elizabeth M. (Interviewer)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":[" English (Primary)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["audio/mp3"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["The collection is open for use. Contact peabodyarchives@lists.jhu.edu for more information."]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://aspace.library.jhu.edu/repositories/4/archival_objects/215346"]}}],"summary":{"en":[" Elizabeth Day (1920-2012) was a pianist, organist, and music educator. She played with the United Service Organization (USO) entertaining military personnel during World War II. Day studied at the Juilliard School of Music and earned a degree in music theory at what is now Morgan State University. She taught in Baltimore County Public Schools, including Bear Creek Elementary and Sollers Point Senior High. She founded and ran the Betty Day Trio, a musical ensemble that performed at social gatherings, and performed at the Arena Players. In this interview with Elizabeth Schaaf, Day discusses her USO tours in the Pacific and her career as a music teacher. Her husband, Joe Day, played jazz trumpet for Tracy McCleary's bands at the Royal Theater."]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["The collection is open for use. Contact peabodyarchives@lists.jhu.edu for more information."]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/008/original/peabody-institute.logo.large.horizontal.blue.cropped.png?1549570058","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/117/399/small/day-eliz.jpg?1649883940","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 2 - pims0091_DayE_side1.mp3"]},"duration":3001.05143,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/117/399/small/day-eliz.jpg?1649883940","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-peabody.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/117/399/original/pims0091_DayE_side1.mp3?1624270802","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":3001.05143,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["DayE_1_OHMS_20220607 [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELIZABETH SCHAAF: The last time I saw you, you played at Mr. [Roy] McCoy's\nfuneral. What a gathering that was. Everybody in music was there. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH DAY: Well, he deserved it. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=0.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He was an unusual person. He was always the\nsame, never had a special attitude. He was just Roy McCoy.  \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Never heard him say an unkind word about anyone. \n\n\n\nDAY: No, he never did.  \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: And his wife, Regina, is as sweet as she can be. \n\n\n\nDAY: I took her to a park concert a couple of weeks ago. I had the schedule of\nwhere they play around the city. My husband used to play for the park band for\nyears. That's how I met Roy, through my husband. He was a trumpet player. He and\nRoy played duets together, like if somebody wanted some special music for\nChristmas or Easter at a church, they'd play together. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=60.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Roy always gave to my\nhusband, Joe, credit for teaching him how to play classical music because\nbefore, he just played jazz. They had a good time together and then we played together.  \n\n\n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Well, we just jumped in ahead without asking you to introduce yourself.\nTell us your name, and where you were born, and I always give the ladies an\noption of skipping over when, if they prefer it. \n\n\n\nDAY: Oh the when. Oh. I don't have any hang-ups about age. I just glad to be\nliving this long. Well, I was born in Pleasantville, New Jersey in 1920. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=120.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I,\nwell, of course, since I said 1920, I'm eighty-one, going be in 82 in December.\nBut then I come from a big family. I'm the youngest of twelve, and now I'm the\nlast survivor, I lost my brother last October. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Oh, I'm so sorry.  \n\n\n\nDAY: We are long livers. Because my dad lived to a hundred two, and my mother\nlived to be eighty-seven.  \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: That's good, very good. \n\n\n\nDAY: Yes, I think so. But I had a very nice, very happy childhood. All of us had\nsome type of music talent, and my brothers sang a lot. Whenever we had a family\ngathering there was always music. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=180.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"One of my brothers really got me interested in\npiano because he was taking piano lessons. So he would show me little things to\nplay. My mother saw that I was interested so she found a teacher for me, and the\nteacher happened to be my second grade teacher.   \n\nAt that time lessons, piano lessons were only fifty cents. [Laughter] So after\nstudying with her for a few years, I changed teachers because my brother's\ngirlfriend was attending Temple University and she was studying piano pedagogy,\nand had the latest methods and what not and my mother let me study with her. And\nso I studied with her until, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=240.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I guess I must have been about second year in high\nschool, and she and my brother married and then they moved to New York. So I was\nwithout a teacher until I went to college. \n\nBut in the meantime, I was very fortunate to have had a very good music teacher\nin school, in high school.  \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Now which high school is this? \n\n\n\nDAY: This is Pleasantville. I stayed there until I graduated from high school.\nAnd his name was Ernest Schwartz. And up until a couple of years ago, he was\nstill keeping in touch with me. \n\nAnd he took an interest in a lot of students who he thought had some potential.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=300.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And so in my first year of high school, the pianist was a senior. So he said,\nwell, Elizabeth, you're going to have a chance to play in assemblies. We used to\nhave assemblies. We used to have assemblies every week.  But he said that\nsince, her name is Margaret Smith, since she's a senior, quite naturally she'll\nbe doing most of the playing. But he said you watch everything she does\n[laughter], and she was very congenial too. \n\nSo then after Margaret graduated, I was the school pianist until I graduated.\nAnd so one of the things that I remember most that I gained from Mr. Schwartz\nwas the fact that we used to have a lot of music shows that when the students\nwould come to audition, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=360.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sometimes, the key might be a little too high or too\nlow, and he would say Elizabeth, play it lower or play it higher, and I would\ntry to find a way. I didn't know anything about transpsoing. But once I got the\nmelody, you know, my ear lead me to it.  \n\nI said to him one day I'm going to a lot of trouble to transpose this music, and\nthey had come back and they are singing it in the original key. So I thought all\nmy work was lost. But the one thing that always stuck in my mind was the fact\nthat he said, yes, but look what you learned. And that's when I really learned\nto transpose, before I went to college.  \n\nSo I was without a piano teacher for two years, but I kept playing. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=420.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My brothers\nwould sing on different programs at church, and I would accompany them. So then\nI went to New England Conservatory for two years, and then I thought it would be\nbetter if I was closer to home so then I went to Institute of Music Art at\nJulliard three and a half years. \n\nOne of my girlfriends was traveling with the USO camp shows, and she came to me\none day and she said, they need another pianist. Are you interested? And I said,\noh yes. So she had traveled all around the States, and I thought it was\nexciting, and I always had a yearn to travel. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=480.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So without even consulting my\nparents, I gave her the okay, you know. But then before I left, you know, I told\nmy parents, and they didn't get too upset except that it was during the war.  \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Right. \n\n\n\nDAY: And my father was a little hesitant at first, you know, about. So he said,\nwell, I guess you'll never see anything staying home. So I accepted the job, and\nwe did excerpts of \"Porgy and Bess\" for the troops. And we went to the South\nPacific and Guadalcanal and New Hebredies, few other places, you know.  \n\nSo when I came back, we were supposed to go to Europe. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=540.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think we were supposed\nto go to Europe, but for some reason or other they changed our itinerary, and we\ndidn't go out for a few months. And then finally we went all around the States,\nand that was quite interesting. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Oh what a wonderful experience.  \n\n\n\nDAY: Yeah. That was -- it was really a good experience. And the pay really\nwasn't bad, and I was able to help my parents because things were getting a\nlittle rough. At that time my dad had supported us a chef -- he was a chef --\nand he wanted all of us to get a higher education because he and my mother\ndidn't have the opportunity. So all of us didn't go to college, but we had the\nopportunity, if we wanted to go.  \n\nSo I was able to help them by accepting that job. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=600.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So that's about it. I was home\nfor a little while and then I went to Chicago and I thought I could maybe get\nsome connections there with music. And I didn't really get what I really wanted\nto do, but I wasn't in vain because right away when somebody found out that I\ncould play, there was always a church job open.  \n\nAnd then I was raising my family so I wasn't doing too much. But my husband was\ncompleting his degree at Vanderbilt Music College because he had come back from\nthe service. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=660.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So when he finished, there were no jobs available at that time so\nwe came to Baltimore. That's how we ended up in Baltimore. He had some offers to\ngo to other places, you know, but he accepted Baltimore. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Now did he say why he made the decision to come here? \n\n\n\nDAY: Oh well, it was part of my decision too. Because it was closer to my\nparents in New Jersey, it seemed, I guess, a little selfish. Well, another\nreason was one of the offers was at a college, and he said well which one do you\nthink I should take. So I said, well, since you haven't had any experience, why\ndon't you start in public school first, and get the experience and then maybe go\nto a college. So he agreed to that.  \n\nSo he taught here, he taught in Baltimore County, and then later in the City. \n\n                     \n\nSCHAAF: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=720.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where did he teach in Baltimore County? \n\n\n\nDAY: He taught right at Soller's Point. But there were, that wasn't where he\nstarted. He started, at that time this was in '51, and they were just starting\nthe instrumental program in Baltimore County at that time. So he had to go to\nseveral schools, some of them way down in Chase. I think at one time he had\nseven schools. He was around here at Fleming and Sparrows Point. So then later\nhe came down to Soller's Point, and taught there for a few years, and then he\nwent in the city, taught there for a few years. And finally went into vocational\nrehabilitation and left music altogether.  \n\nBut see, I couldn't start teaching right away, although I had an offer because I\ndidn't have a degree, I didn't get a degree. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=780.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I had all of the music subjects. So\nmy mother kept telling me, well, it's time you finish your degree. She said, you\nhelped Joe, and you got to go on and do something for yourself. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Good advice. \n\n\n\nDAY: Yes. Very good advice. And so I waited for a while it was a different\nreason why I couldn't get started. So I just made up my mind one time that I'm\nnot going to let another year go by. So I started taking part-time courses at\nMorgan, and they were having evening classes at Douglass, the old Douglass High\nSchool. So I did that for a couple of years, and then each year I would increase\nthe number of points, credits, you know, cause I wanted to finish.  \n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=840.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was working at Social Security. And so I said well if I've got to work, I want\nto work in music. So then, it wasn't easy. I was raising a family and going to\nschool and hoping and praying. I was just determined. So as I increased my\ncredits, then I went up to the campus and took courses and then go to work in\nthe evening. It wasn't easy, but I was fortunate to have had a very good baby\nsitter. And she was very considerate and helped me a lot.  \n\nAnd so then when I finished, I got a job right away teaching school.  \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Who were the music teachers you worked with at Morgan? \n\n\n\nDAY: Strider. Ever heard of him? R. A. Strider because he was the band director\nthere. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=900.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And that was -- can I backtrack a little bit?  \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Sure. \n\n\n\nDAY: The summer before my husband started teaching, I went home.  I went home\npretty often to see my parents. And Strider was visiting some friends who lived\nacross the street from my brother. And so after I met him and they told me he\nwas from Baltimore and at Morgan, so I said by the way my husband's looking for\na job. And so he was the one that wrote down these places, Soller's Point, I\nthink it was Alabama State. And so then I gave that information to my husband\nand things started rolling. \n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=960.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Since I had all of my music credits, I had to get the methods of teaching. And\nso I worked on that. And I really worked so hard I got on the honor roll. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Oh my goodness. How wonderful. \n\n\n\nDAY: I said for one thing, I was paying for it. I had to pay for it this time.\nAnd not only that, I said, well, I can't afford to fail because I don't have the\ntime and the money. I can't afford to fail here. So I was just determined I was\ngoing to do a good job of it, and get through as quick as I could.  \n\nSo I started to Soller's Point. My husband by that time had left Soller's Point\nand gone into the city. But I taught there four years, and then I felt that I\nreally couldn't handle the big kids too well. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=1020.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I wasn't a good disciplinarian, I\nadmit. One reason, most of the kids in this area knew me, and they were always\nso nice -- Mrs. Day. It was different in the classroom, you know. And some of\nthem would play tricks on you. [Laughter] \n\nSo I asked for a transfer. And I must say I had very good music supervisors even\nin secondary and elementary.  So I told them I would like to get a transfer to\nelementary, and they said that as soon as something was open, they would honor\nthat request. So they did. So I transferred to elementary, and I really enjoyed\nit. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=1080.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But, well, I taught altogether twenty-five years. And I thought that was\npretty good for the time that I started. I didn't start at the usual age, right\nout of college teaching. But I enjoyed it.  \n\nAnd I have had some good remembrances. One of my students called me one day, and\nthat had been about thirty years since I taught her. She was a student at Fort\nHoward, and she said, Mrs. Day, I don't know if you remember me, but, she said,\noh you just taught me so much. And you used to write special parts for me for\nthe flute. Well, she was very talented. And I always wanted to add something to\nthe chorus, you know, so I'd write a little descant for to play. And she didn't\nforget that. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=1140.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So she wanted to know if I had the music, a couple of songs that I\ntaught the chorus, and I happened to have a couple, and I sent them to her. \n\nAnd then following that, she invited me to lunch, and she was helping a music\nteacher at Perry Hall elementary school. And then we got together one day, and\nshe and the teacher and I had lunch together. And I often wonder why she didn't\ngo and pursue higher education in music, but for some reason she didn't. But she\nstill plays, play flute. And she's invited me to attend the class that she was\nperforming in at Loch Raven Senior High. But I wasn't able to go. But I always\nget a Christmas card from her. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Oh how nice, very nice.  \n\n\n\nDAY: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=1200.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But I enjoy what I'm doing now because I can still use my music. You know,\nso I play with Monty [Poulson] and Andy Ennis. Did you know Robert Smith? He\nused to teach at Morgan and he was a violinist. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: I know the name, but I don't know. \n\n\n\nDAY: And Hathcock. Hathcock was at Morgan. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Right. \n\n\n\nDAY: Well, we used to play together for banquets and teas. We just started\nplaying for fun, you know, and somebody heard us one day and asked us to play\nfor a tea. So that's how we got started. In fact, just before Bob Smith passed,\nhe called me one day and said he had a job to play for the AKA's luncheon. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=1260.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And\nhe said I'm too sick to do it, and can you get somebody, and he recommended --\nwho did he recommend? I think it was a guy named William Gross.  \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Oh yes. \n\n\n\nDAY: Yeah. So he and Monty and I would play together. And after he passed, we\nmoved on to Andy Ennis, and so that's what we're doing now, playing here and there.   \n\nAnd then I substitute for different churches. And I always tell people, I'm not\nan organist. But I play the organ, but I didn't study organ like I did piano.\nBut they accept what I can do because, playing the hymns, you know. But I tell\nthem, I say I don't play the Bach fugues and all that -- which I'd love to do,\nbut I just didn't spend enough time studying them. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=1320.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, I want to hear more about your traveling in the USO trips.  \n\n\n\nDAY: Well, let's see. Well, we just went from one military installation to the\nother. And fortunately we didn't encounter any battlegrounds. I mean, we weren't\nclose to the lines or anything. We were very fortunate in that way. But what we\ndid, the military had two pianos that they would put in a truck, and wherever we\nhad to play, they took the pianos. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: So you didn't have to take pot luck and. That's very good. \n\n\n\nDAY: Yes. And we used two pianos. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=1380.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"This girl from Oklahoma, Julia Lattimer, she\nwas very talented. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Now what years were these? \n\n\n\nDAY: I left Juilliard in '43. So this was '44, between '44, '46.  \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: The troops were still segregated at that point weren't they? \n\n\n\nDAY: Pardon. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Were the troops still segregated? \n\n\n\nDAY: No. Some of them were integrated, the ones that we played for. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Okay.  \n\n\n\nDAY: Yeah. They were integrated. And it was quite a coincidence. I met a fellow\nwho lived in my home town overseas.  On the same block! ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=1440.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Whenever we reached a\nmilitary installation that didn't have convenience to use our props, then we did\n-- what did they call it -- a variety show, you know, song and dance. We had\nenough talented people to do that. But we played, Judy and I. It was really a\nlot of fun. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Oh, it was such a great experience. \n\n\n\nDAY: And then meeting some of the natives, you know, that was quite interesting.\nThe first island we landed on was New Caledonia, and then we went to New\nHebrides and Guadalcanal. And after, they were the main islands on the tour. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=1500.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Did you have much direct contact with the servicemen who had come back\nfrom active, I mean, from being actively involved in the war, or did they just\nmove you in and get you out again after the show? Did you have any? \n\n\n\nDAY: Yeah. We didn't have that much contact. We had more contacts with the\ntroops going over, you know, but other than that we didn't. I don't know whether\nit was allowed or what, but we didn't have that much contact. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: They probably were very protective. \n\n\n\nDAY: Yes. We had an incident. You don't have to tape this if you don't want to,\nbut we were getting ready for a show, and one of the girls was practicing. She\nwas the young lady who did the best. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=1560.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And so we did have a little contact with\nthe fellows because these fellows would come in the afternoons to see us, and\nshe said oh we're getting ready for a show. We don't need to see anybody now. So\nin order to deter them she started vocalizing. It was really hilarious. She said\nthat will chase them away. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Well, that must have been some comfort for your father. \n\n\n\nDAY: Yes it was, definitely.  \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Now what about your husband, where was he in the service? \n\n\n\nDAY: He was in the Philippines and he was in the band. He used to play in the\nband. He was a trumpet player. He was in the service about four and a half years. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=1620.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So that was great. The musicians are at least protected from too much hazard. \n\n\n\nDAY: Yes, right. Definitely. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: So how did you meet, how did you meet him? \n\n\n\nDAY: I met him -- I'm trying to remember how we met. I don't know, I think\nsomebody introduced us. I was going down to join the musicians association, and\nhe asked me if I would mind him going along. I said no. And so we went down and\nI joined the union. \n\nBut when I came to Baltimore, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=1680.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and one day I went to pay his dues so both of us\ncould join, and when I got there, I decided oh I'm not going to be playing like\nhe is, I don't need to join. So I didn't join. I paid his fee, and then later\non, I had an opportunity to play with Mr. Irvine so I had to become a member of\nthe union and so then I joined. So I'm almost ready for a lifetime membership. [Laughter]  \n\n\n\n\n\nSCHAAF: You're the only person I've ever met who went on her first date to the\nunion headquarters. \n\n\n\nDAY: Oh really? [Laughter] Yeah. Right. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: So you came to Baltimore around 1951.  \n\n\n\nDAY: '51. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Okay. And where did you move when you came down here? \n\n\n\nDAY: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=1740.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We lived in Bay Village for four years, and then we heard that the\ngovernment was selling these houses, and so we jumped on it right away. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Now where is, the first place that you moved was? \n\n\n\nDAY: Bay Village.  \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Just over here. \n\n\n\nDAY: Over here, not too far. And we, you know, we had three children. No, we had\ntwo at the time, and then my daughter was born. So we bought this home. And it\nwas a duplex, but since we needed the space with the children we cut through and\nmade it one house. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: I see. So when you came here in the, well, 1951, then Pennsylvania\nAvenue was still up and running. \n\n\n\nDAY: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=1800.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes. And my husband played at the Royal, but I never played there. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: And he must have been with Tracy McCleary. \n\n\n\nDAY: Right. Yes. Definitely. I recommended him for an interview with a young\nlady who was taking a course at Sojourner Truth College. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Well, I interviewed Mr. McCleary. \n\n\n\nDAY: You did? \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Yes, indeed.  \n\n\n\nDAY: Well, he wouldn't honor it for me. Well, how long ago was that? \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: It was before Mr. McCoy died. \n\n\n\nDAY: Well, maybe at that time he felt more up to it. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: He was a lot stronger.  \n\n\n\nDAY: Yeah. Because he said now that he's going to the doctor all the time, he\njust didn't feel up to it.  \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: He did a terrific interview.  \n\n\n\nDAY: Oh really. That's great. Yeah. They had a terrific band. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: And he's such a, such a character. \n\n\n\nDAY: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=1860.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yeah. He really is. Now another fellow I wonder if you have interviewed. He\nhas charge of one of the Park Bands now. That band really plays well. Oh yeah. I\ndidn't get to all of their concerts this year, but I went to the one up at the\nCold Spring Community. That's the one that I took Regina, Roy's [McCoy] wife to.  \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: And he used to play with Gene Walker's band too. \n\n\n\nDAY: Oh he did. He played every year. Yes. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: You played with the Park Band too. \n\n\n\nDAY: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=1920.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, I only played when Irvine asked me to play. We were like the guests\nonce. We had Bob Smith and William Hathcock. We had a little trio, and we were\ntheir guests. That was the only time I played. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: But I mean, you've had such a varied career. I mean, music, music\neducation, church music. \n\n\n\nDAY: I'm happy, you know, that I have had that experience. It is very rewarding,\nespecially now that I'm, you know, I'm retired, but I'm still able to be active.\nAnd then another thing, since I'm a widow, it helps ease the loneliness of\nliving alone. I don't like living alone, but what can I do. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=1980.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And so I feel that I\nshouldn't complain because I have a lot of friends. And since I play with a lot\nof different music groups. I play in a recorder group and I play hand bells with\nTowson Methodist Church. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: That's terrific. They have a great bell choir. \n\n\n\nDAY: Oh. They have more one than one bell choir. I don't know how many bell\nchoirs that it has. I go during the fall. We don't do anything in the summer.\nBut in the fall, I belong to the Monday morning group. We call that the\necumenical group because most of us don't belong to the church, and then we're\nable to play different places. We go up to Bayview to play every year and some\nother nursing homes. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=2040.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And also we play at some of the elementary schools.  \n\nAnd then she has a Tuesday night group and I understand a lot of them are music\nteachers, and Wednesday night group, most of them belong to the church so she\nuses them mostly for the services. We play quite often on Sunday mornings. But I\nlove doing that. \n\nWell, I'll tell you how I got affiliated with that. Tanya Torrez, while playing\nrecorder with the group, she said she'd been playing with the bell choir quite a\nlot. And she said, we need some more bell players. Are you interested? And I\nsaid, well, I love hand bells because when I was teaching, I would go to the\nMusic Educators conference every year, and the first thing I looked for on the\nschedule was the hand bell choir. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=2100.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I wanted to hear the hand bell choir. \n\nSo I said, yeah. I said, well, I don't want to get hooked up in too many things.\nI had just retired. So she said, well, that's all right. Just come out to\nrehearsal and see how you like it. Kathy Nicks wasn't the director at that time.\nIt was another fellow, but I can't think of his name right now. But he passed\naway so then Kathy came on board. So I've been playing with them ever since I\nretired in '83. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: That's great. \n\n\n\nDAY: And I love it. I go to all the festivals. Every year we used to go to\nVirginia Beach for a big hand bell festival. And for the past two years we've\ngone to Chesapeake, Virginia, because for some reason or other they couldn't get\nthe facility at Virginia Beach. They have about a thousand bell ringers. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=2160.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And\nit's surprising the sound. You know, everybody would think it would be such a\nclashing, but it's really controlled. Because all of the directors who are\nparticipating in that festival, they see the music ahead of time. We'll\npractice, you know, and we all get together. And the director, the clinician for\nthe festival, sends them the notes and tells them what he wants and what not. So\nit works out real nice.  \n\nAnd then the recorder group, I didn't get serious about the recorder until I\nstarted teaching because they had a lot of incentive courses, and I took\neverything that came along, I mean, that I thought would help me with the work.\nAnd it didn't cost anything. So I said, well, I'll take it. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=2220.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And it helped with\nyour credits, you know, to renew your certificate. \n\nSo one summer I had to get nine credits to renew my certificate. So I took nine\ncredits. And at it was at Peabody in Towson. So one of the subjects was music of\nthe Renaissance. So I thought, oh my goodness, I guess I'm really going to have\nto be writing a lot of papers, and I didn't like that. So to my surprise, Paula\nHatcher was the teacher and it wasn't a course of writing. It was playing the\nrecorder. So in introducing ourselves, she wanted to know how much experience we\nhad. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=2280.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So another fellow and I were really beginners. And so she said, well, you\ncan sit in the course. If you work real hard, you can make it. So we did. And it\nwas more fun. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: She's great. \n\n\n\nDAY: Isn't she great? So that was one of the courses, music of the Renaissance.\nThe other one was music of Appalachia. And that was fun because it was with a\nlady -- I think she was from Appalachia. She was very good. I had played a\nlittle guitar so I took my guitar, because I had taken an in service course in\nguitar too. So that helped. And let see, what other course -- music of the\nrenaissance, music of Appalachia and something else, but I can't recall what\nthat was. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=2340.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But all of them were very good. They were enjoyable. I said that was\nthe best summer I ever had in taking courses. Yes, it worked out fine.  \n\nI play early music. I belong to the Society of Early Music of Northern Maryland.\nI've belonged for quite a while. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: When you joined the union, had the two unions here in Baltimore already\ngotten together? I know when your husband came in they were still separate\nweren't they? \n\n\n\nDAY: I think so. I think they were together when I joined. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Because that would have been in the '60s when they joined together.  \n\n\n\nDAY:  Yes, I guess that's about right.  \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=2400.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Now, you were talking about being alone.  My goodness if you were\nworking during the day and your husband was working the Royal Theater, you must\nhave been used to having some pretty quiet evenings with him out every night. \n\n\n\nDAY: Oh yes. I don't know, I just got used to it. He was very reliable, and he\ncame home. Some fellows hang out and what not, but he didn't. He just did the\njob and came home. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Were they still playing those midnight shows when he was working at the\nRoyal? Because I know they did that for a long time, but that may have been\nearlier in the '40s.  \n\n\n\nDAY: That might have been. No, I don't remember them. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=2460.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And the clubs were still going strong. Mr. Dixon's Comedy Club was still\nup and running, and the Red Fox lasted well into the '60s because Ethel Ennis\nwas singing at the Red Fox when I used to go down there as a student.  \n\n\n\nDAY: I wasn't familiar with those clubs. I can't even tell you a club I went to,\nreally. I never went to clubs. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Well, my goodness, if you were teaching every day, I don't know how you\nwere going to have time. \n\n\n\nDAY: I mean, that just wasn't my thing. I mean, even though I liked music and I\nliked jazz, I just didn't really have time, with raising a family and everything.  \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=2520.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Being in music education a really good span of time, you've really had a\nchance to see the changes taking place. What are the most noticeable changes in\nmusic education since when you started teaching? \n\n\n\nDAY: Well, when I started teaching, I thought they had a pretty good system. It\nimproved as we went along. And it saddens me now to see that it has somewhat\ndeteriorated in Baltimore County. Because they developed a system where they had\nat that time what they called helping teachers, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=2580.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and for certain areas they'd\nhave so many -- supervise so many teachers and see if they needed help. They'd\ngive them different ideas and what not. And that was very helpful, and they had\nvery good in service courses. I found that very rewarding too. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: And things actually are looking up it seems in the city. We've got the\nSchool for the Arts now, and there's talk of having Booker T. Washington\nincreasing the music training there, which has always had a wonderful reputation\nfor music.  \n\n\n\nDAY: Well are things getting better? Because in the city, it had gone down a lot.  \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: We're actually getting a fair number of students from the city at\nPeabody out of the city public school system. \n\n\n\nDAY: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=2640.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Is that right? \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: And I know I was just delighted when I heard the kids playing over at Douglass.  \n\n\n\nDAY: The jazz band. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Well, the jazz band and some of the singers. \n\n\n\nDAY: Oh, oh, they've always had good music at Douglass.  I don't know if you\nrecall Georgiana Chester. She had a terrific group over there. And you know\nrecently, I accompanied the chorus at Western High School. They have a young\nlady over there who's doing a terrific job with the chorus over there. They were\nhaving something special and she needed an accompanist and they asked me to\nplay. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=2700.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Those girls are terrific. If you ever have a chance, you should go and\nhear them. They sound like a college choir. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: And who is the director over there at Western? \n\n\n\nDAY: I think her last name is Jenkins. She's terrific. She's a young person\nthere. I think she's been there a couple of years. And she also directs the\nmen's chorus at Heritage United Church of Christ at Liberty Heights, and that's\na very good group too. Her name is Robin Jenkins. I think she's a graduate of\none of the southern colleges. I don't know if it's Morehouse. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=2760.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And she's at Heritage. \n\n\n\nDAY: Heritage United Church of Christ. She has the men's chorus, and they sing\nduring the summer months. I don't know if it's the summer months or during the\nmonth of July, because that's when I substituted over there.  \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: It's really encouraging to, you know, see the kids coming out of the\nschools and over to Peabody. \n\n\n\nDAY:  I'm glad to know that. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Dontae Winslow just graduated, and he's staying here in town. \n\n\n\nDAY: And what is his instrument? \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Trumpet. \n\n\n\nDAY: Trumpet. Oh. Really. \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: Oh, my goodness. Plays like a angel. Played first trumpet in the Peabody\nSymphony Orchestra.   \n\n\n\nDAY: Really? \n\n\n\nSCHAAF:  I heard him play first chair in the orchestra and then later, playing\nat the Haven. \n\n\n\nDAY: Oh really. He does both -- it's good that he's versatile. 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And church music has really changed a lot too. \n\n\n\nDAY: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=2880.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399/transcript/38400/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh definitely. Definitely. Because look at the Catholic Churches. They have\nabout just as many gospel groups as Protestant churches. They have just\norganized a new group at All Saints that I've been playing up there for the\nmonth of August. And they just organized a group, and it's very good. \n\nHave you ever interviewed Kenneth Dean? \n\n\n\nSCHAAF: No, I haven't. I should do that. \n\n\n\nDAY: He's Dr. Kenneth Dean. They have a music school, a music academy at All\nSaints. And they're thinking about starting a bell choir.  ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117399#t=2940.0,3000.0"}]}]},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117400","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 2 of 2 - pims0091_DayE_side2.mp3"]},"duration":389.04163,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/117/400/small/day-eliz.jpg?1649883967","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117400/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117400/content/2/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-peabody.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/117/400/original/pims0091_DayE_side2.mp3?1624270804","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":389.04163,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117400","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117400/transcript/38394","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["DayE_2_OHMS_20220607 [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117400/transcript/38394/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ELIZABETH DAY: And Audrey McCallum, she is a Peabody graduate. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: She's been very helpful in this project from the very beginning. She is\na wonderfully versatile musician. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH DAY: We keep saying we're going to get together and play some things together.\nWe better do it soon.  \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: I want to be around when that happens. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH DAY: I'll let you know when it happens. Her sister asked me to substitute for\nher in July. She's organist at Heritage, Audrey's sister. Have you met her? \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Only in passing some years back. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117400#t=0.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117400/transcript/38394/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAY: What about Andy Ennis, he's played with some big stars on the road. He\nplays very well. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: When you were growing up, I know you had music lessons, but what kind of\nmusic were you listening to at home?  \n\n\n\nELIZABETH ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117400#t=60.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117400/transcript/38394/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAY: Well, we had -- well when my brothers got together, they sang and we had an\nold Victrola. My parents had some religious records. I don't recall hearing much\njazz, but we had jazz in the house because my brothers played piano and drums.\nWhen the kids had a party, regardless whether they were in their class or not,\nthey wanted to have it at Scotts (that was my maiden name) because they had a\nbuilt in band. \n\nWe had so many parties there. One time somebody asked my father -- my dad was\nlovely, but he was pretty strict -- ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117400#t=120.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117400/transcript/38394/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so we wanted to have a party and he said, I\nthink they've broken up enough here. Let them go somewhere else. So we never had\nany more parties. But we had our share of parties. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: That's one way to be the most popular kid on the block. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH DAY: We always had something going on. One brother played trombone, another\ndrums and piano, so we had it going. Enough for them to keep the beat. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: When you went up to Juilliard to go to school, were you living in Manhattan? \n\n\n\nELIZABETH DAY: Yes, I was living at the Y. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: What year were you at Juilliard? \n\n\n\nELIZABETH ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117400#t=180.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117400/transcript/38394/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DAY: From 1940 -- I graduated from high school in 1938 and I went to New\nEngland. So it was 1940 until about 1943. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: Ellis Larkins was there. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH DAY: Yes. He was there when I was there. I've seen him since he came back to Baltimore.  \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: What was Mr. Larkins like as a student?  \n\n\n\nELIZABETH DAY: Well he was friendly. He's changed a lot -- but I guess we all change \n\n\n\nELIZABETH ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117400#t=240.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117400/transcript/38394/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHAAF: You were talking about what you wanted for a career when you started out\nat Juilliard. \n\nELIZABETH DAY: My ambition was to become a concert pianist. After I married, I realized\nthat it really wasn't possible at that time because I didn't have the financial\nmeans and then when I started raising my family, I knew that I wouldn't be able\nto travel. However, I feel that I have reached more people by doing just what I\nhave done through the years, through music education and being part of different\nmusic ensembles and meeting people as a substitute organist. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117400#t=300.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117400/transcript/38394/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It makes me feel\ngood when people come up to me sometimes and say, oh my, you really inspired me\nwith that. \n\n\n\nELIZABETH SCHAAF: So it has been a very successful career.  \n\n\n\nELIZABETH DAY: It really has. I wouldn't substitute anything for it. \n\n\n\nEND OF SESSION  ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44122/file/117400#t=360.0,420.0"}]}]}]}