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Name
  
Henrietta Yurchenco

Role
  
Musical Artist

Education
  
Yale School of Music


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Died
  
December 10, 2007, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States

Books
  
Around the World in 80 Years: A Memoir : a Musical Odyssey

Albums
  
The Real Mexico in Music and Song

Similar People
  
New Lost City Ramblers, John Cohen, Mike Seeger, Lead Belly, Alan Lomax

Skip James & Mable Hillery: Mary, Don't You Weep (c. 1965-1966)


Henrietta Yurchenco (born Henrietta Weiss in New Haven, Connecticut, March 22, 1916; died New York City, New York, December 10, 2007) was an American ethnomusicologist, folklorist, radio producer, and radio host.

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She studied piano at Yale School of Music. She recorded traditional music in Guatemala, Mexico, the United States, and Morocco. She also worked at WNYC and taught at the City College of New York.

She married the painter Basil Yurchenco and knew Alan Lomax and Pete Seeger.

She lived in New York City, New York, and died there, from lung failure, at the age of 91.

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Books

  • Yurchenco, Henrietta (2002). Around the World in 80 Years: A Memoir--A Musical Odyssey by Henrietta Yurchenco. Point Richmond, California: MRI Press.
  • Yurchenco, Henrietta, assisted by Marjorie Guthrie. A Mighty Hard Road: The Woody Guthrie Story. Introduction by Arlo Guthrie.
  • Yurchenco, Henrietta. In Their Own Voices: Women in the Judeo-Hispanic Song and Story.
  • Yurchenco, Henrietta. A Russian Song Book.
  • Yurchenco, Henrietta. Hablamos!
  • Yurchenco, Henrietta. In Their Own Voices. (About the music of Sephardic Jewish women in Morocco, as well as numerous articles on folk music and figures, including Dylan, Bessie Smith, and Aunt Molly Jackson; as yet unpublished.)
  • Yurchenco was interviewed by Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead and is featured in his book Songcatchers, published by National Geographic.

    Films

  • 1996 - Henrietta Yurchenco: testimonio de vida. Directed by José Luis Sagredo.
  • 2004 - Lomax the Songhunter. Directed by Rogier Kappers.
  • 2005 - This Machine Kills Fascists. Directed by Stephen Gammond.
  • References

    Henrietta Yurchenco Wikipedia