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ude as a boy his mother remembered him later in her life as a boy marching about with a feather in his cap and pounding on a drum while whistling auld lang syne 7 foster taught himself to play the clarinet drums flute guitar and piano as well as being a good whistler whistling a lot of the music he wrote including old folks at home swanee river 8 in 1839 his brother william was serving his apprenticeship as an engineer at towanda and thought that stephen would benefit from being under the supervision of henry kleber 1816 1897 a german born music dealer in pittsburgh under kleber stephen was exposed to music composition 9 together the pair studied the works of mozart beethoven weber mendelssohn and schubert citation needed the site of the camptown races which would provide both the title and setting for events of one of foster s best known songs was located 30 miles 48 km from athens and 15 miles 24 km from towanda foster s education included a brief period at jefferson college in canonsburg pennsylvania now part of washington jefferson college 10 nb 1 his tuition was paid but foster had little spending money 10 he left canonsburg to visit pittsburgh with another student when and did not return 10 career edit house in hoboken new jersey where foster is believed to have written jeanie with the light brown hair in 1854 12 foster married jane denny mcdowell on july 22 1850 and they visited new york and baltimore on their honeymoon he then returned to pennsylvania and wrote most of his best known songs camptown races 1850 nelly bly 1850 ring de banjo 1851 old folks at home known also as swanee river 1851 my old kentucky home 1853 old dog tray 1853 and jeanie with the light brown hair 1854 written for his wife jane many of foster s songs were used in the blackface minstrel shows popular at the time he sought to build up taste among refined people by making words suitable to their taste instead of the trashy and really offensive words which belong to some songs of that order 13 however foster s output of minstrel songs declined after the early 1850s as he turned primarily to parlor music 14 many of his songs had southern themes yet foster never lived in the south and visited it only once during his 1852 honeymoon available archival evidence does not suggest that foster was an abolitionist 14 foster s last four years were spent in new york city there is little information on this period of his life although family correspondence has been preserved 15 illness and death edit a pittsburgh press illustration of the original headstone on stephen foster s grave foster became sick with a fever in january 1864 weakened it is possible that he fell in his hotel in the bowery and cut his neck foster may also have sought to kill himself 16 his writing partner george cooper found foster still alive but lying in a pool of blood foster died in bellevue hospital three days later at age 37 17 his leather wallet contained a scrap of paper that simply said dear friends and gentle hearts along with 37 cents in civil war scrip and three pennies other biographers describe different accounts of his death 18 historian joanne o connell speculates in her biography the life and songs of stephen foster that foster may have killed himself 16 as o connell and musicologist ken emerson have noted several of the songs foster wrote during the last years of his life foreshadow his death such as the little ballad girl and kiss me dear mother ere i die emerson says in his 2010 stephen foster and co that foster s injuries may have been accidental or self inflicted 19 telegram that communicated stephen foster s death addressed to his brother morrison foster the note inside foster s wallet is said to have inspired bob hilliard s lyric for dear hearts and gentle people 1949 foster was buried in the allegheny cemetery in pittsburgh after his death morrison foster became his literary executor as such he answered requests for copies of manuscripts autographs and biographical information 15 one of his best loved works beautiful dreamer was posthumously published in 1864 20 music edit see also list of songs written by stephen foster foster grew up in lawrenceville now a neighborhood of pittsburgh where many european immigrants had settled and were accustomed to hearing the music of the italian scots irish and german residents he composed his first song at age 14 and entitled it the tioga waltz the first song foster had published was open thy lattice love 1844 9 21 he wrote songs in support of drinking such as my wife is a most knowing woman mr and mrs brown and when the bowl goes round while also composing temperance songs such as comrades fill no glass for me or the wife 6 foster also authored many church hymns although the inclusion of his hymns in hymnals ended by 1910 some of the hymns are seek and ye shall find 22 all around is bright and fair while we work for jesus 23 and blame not those who weep and sigh 24 several rare civil war era hymns by foster were performed by the old stoughton musical society chorus including the pure the bright the beautiful over the river give us this day and what shall the harvest be citation needed when he also arranged many works by mozart beethoven donizetti lanner weber and schubert for flute and guitar foster usually sent his handwritten scores directly to his publishers the publishers kept the sheet music manuscripts and did not give them to libraries nor return them to his heirs some of his original hand written scores were bought and put into private collections and the library of congress 15 popular songs edit my old kentucky home is the official state song of kentucky adopted by the general assembly on march 19 1928 citation needed foster s songs lyrics and melodies have often been altered by publishers and performers 25 in 1957 ray charles released a version of old folks at home that was titled swanee river rock talkin bout that river which became his first pop hit that november 26 in the 2000s when old folks at home designated the official state song of florida in 1935 27 came under attack for what some regarded as offensive terms in the song s lyrics changes were made to them with the approval of the stephen foster memorial citation needed when the modified song was kept as the official state song while florida where the sawgrass meets the sky was added as the state anthem citation needed a 1974 published collection stephen foster song book original sheet music of 40 songs new york dover publications inc of stephen foster s popular songs was edited by musicologist richard jackson 28 legacy edit this section has multiple issues please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page learn how and when to remove these messages this section may contain excessive or irrelevant examples please help improve it by removing less pertinent examples and elaborating on existing ones february 2023 learn how and when to remove this message this section needs more citations please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources unsourced material may be challenged and removed find sources stephen foster news newspapers books scholar jstor february 2023 learn how and when to remove this message learn how and when to remove this message songs edit oh susanna 1848 stephen foster s oh susanna performed by the united states navy concert band old folks at home old folks at home performed by ernestine schumann heink 1918 problems playing these files see media help professor of folklore and musician john minton wrote a song titled stephen c foster s blues 29 walt kelly recorded an a cappella rendition of foster s old dog tray on the 1956 album songs of the pogo kelly regularly referenced old dog tray as the theme song for his character beauregard hound dog from his comic strip pogo the firesign theatre makes many references to foster s compositions in their cd boom dot bust 1999 rhino records larry kirwan of black 47 mixes the music of foster with his own in the musical hard times which earned a new york times accolade in its original run a knockout entertainment kirwan gives a contemporary interpretation of foster s troubled later years and sets it in the tumultuous time of the new york draft riots and the irish negro relations of the period a revival ran at the cell theater in new york in early 2014 and a revised version of the musical called paradise square opened at berkeley repertory theatre in 2018 gordon lightfoot wrote a song in 1970 titled your love s return song for stephen foster randy newman s 1970 album 12 songs contained newman s song old kentucky home originally titled turpentine and dandelion wine which is based on foster s my old kentucky home good night newman told billboard magazine it s a good song because stephen foster wrote the hook 30 under various titles newman s old kentucky home was covered by the beau brummels the alan price set and johnny cash spike jones recorded a comedy send up i dream of brownie with the light blue jeans humorist stan freberg imagined a 1950s style version of foster s music in rock around stephen foster and with harry shearer had a sketch about foster having writer s block in a bit from his united states of america project songwriter tom shaner mentions stephen foster meeting up with eminem s alter ego slim shady on the bowery in shaner s song rock roll is a natural thing the music of stephen foster was an early influence on the australian composer percy grainger who stated that hearing camptown races sung by his mother was one of his earliest musical recollections he went on to write a piece entitled tribute to foster a composition for mixed choir orchestra and pitched wine glasses based on the melody of camptown races 31 art garfunkel was cast as stephen foster and sang his songs in an elementary school play in queens new york 32 foster s name is included in the rapid fire litany of musicians and songs that make up the lyrics of the 1974 pop novelty song life is a rock but the radio rolled me by reunion neil sedaka wrote and recorded a song about foster and released it on his 1975 album the hungry years alternative country duo the handsome family s song wildebeest from their 2013 album wilderness is about foster s death 33 squirrel nut zippers wrote and recorded a song in 1998 titled the ghost of stephen foster stace england released in april 2024 as part of the group foster s satchel a full length album entitled over the river stephen foster reimagined john fogerty of creedence clearwater revival has said foster s music inspired his own music especially proud mary the musicologist ken emerson has suggested that some of foster s songs are a source of racial embarrassment and infuriation 34 foster commemorative stamp in the famous american composers series 1940 35 television edit two television shows about the life of foster and his childhood friend and later wife jane macdowell were produced in japan the first in 1979 with 13 episodes and the second from 1992 to 1993 with 52 episodes both were titled jeanie with the light brown hair after the song of the same name in the honeymooners episode the 99 000 answer ralph kramden studies decades worth of popular songs for his upcoming appearance on a television game show before each song ed norton warms up on the piano by playing the opening to swanee river on the program ralph is asked his first question for just 100 dollars who is the composer of swanee river ralph freezes then nervously responds ed norton and loses in a fractured fairy tales segment of the rocky and bullwinkle show aladdin finds a lamp with a female genie with light brown hair who immediately asks are you stephen foster lucille ball in an episode of the lucy show announces that she is about to play a record called bing crosby sings stephen foster a crosby impressionist is heard singing to the melody of camptown races a bum bum bum bum bum bum bum stephen foster film edit many early filmmakers selected foster s songs for their work because his copyrights had expired and cost them nothing 36 the 1935 technicolor musical short film memories and melodies depicts collins trying to sell a song at the local music shop and reminiscing other hollywood films include harmony lane 1935 with douglass montgomery swanee river 1939 with don ameche and i dream of jeanie 1952 with bill shirley the 1939 production was one of twentieth century fox s more ambitious efforts filmed in technicolor the other two were low budget affairs made by b movie studios in the film tombstone 1993 billy clanton played by thomas haden church tries to bait doc holliday val kilmer who is playing a chopin nocturne on the piano by saying is that old dog tray that sounds like old dog tray to me when the goad fails clanton asks whether doc knows any other songs like camptown races oh susanna you know stephen stinkin foster in the film a million ways to die in the west seth macfarlane s character albert can t get foster s song if you ve only got a mustache from the previous scene out of his head charlize theron s character suggests singing a different song to which he replies there are only like 3 songs and she adds and they re all by stephen foster in the 1949 film mighty joe young the character jill young terry moore is able to calm her pet 12 foot tall gorilla by whistling or playing beautiful dreamer in the movie frankie and johnny 1966 starring elvis presley johnny elvis character talking to cully played by harry morgan when reviewing a song says let s hear it stephen foster places edit the stephen foster memorial at the university of pittsburgh contains two theaters foster is honored on the university of pittsburgh campus with the stephen foster memorial a landmark building that houses the stephen foster memorial museum the center for american music and two theaters the charity randall theatre and henry heymann theatre both performance spaces for pitt s department of theater arts it is the largest repository for original stephen foster compositions recordings and other memorabilia his songs have inspired worldwide two state parks are named in foster s honor the stephen foster folk culture center state park in white springs florida and stephen c foster state park in georgia both parks are on the suwannee river stephen foster lake at mt pisgah state park in pennsylvania is named after him my old kentucky home state park a state park in bardstown kentucky was named in honor of foster s song my old kentucky home it includes a historic mansion formerly named federal hill where foster is said to have been an occasional visitor according to his brother morrison foster citation needed art edit stephen foster sculpture in schenley plaza pittsburgh by giuseppe moretti 1900 removed in 2018 a public sculpture by giuseppe moretti honoring foster and commemorating his song old uncle ned sat near the stephen foster memorial until 2018 the statue was removed 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