10 Nov
2005
10 Nov
'05
8:01 a.m.
A request:
Begin forwarded message:
From: Izzy Young <izzy.young(a)telia.com>
Date: November 7, 2005 10:18:56 AM EST
And besides that you said you would pass my name onto forty or
so contradance callers with my request to find out their favorite 5
or 6 dances, and, ALSO, to list 1 or 2 dances they used to love and
do not teach any longer. This is part of my great project. If you
can manage that can you put in the quote, the short paragraph on
Ralph Page that I wrote in 1961.
Please respond directly to Izzy (izzy.young(a)telia.com) -- who is
fascinating guy. A former New Yorker, he's lived in Sweden for the
past 30 years and runs the "Folklore Center" in Stockholm. He calls
dances for Swedes and Danes on a regular basis.
Izzy says he only needs dance titles, not figures.
Here's the quote, which was an announcement that Izzy ran in his "The
Folklore Center Recommends" newsletter in 1961, when he still lived
in NYC:
"RALPH PAGE, Square Dance Caller from New Hampshire, leads the
dancers through their paces at the Metropolitan-Duane Hall. It is
such a pleasure to have a traditional caller with imagination in NYC
after listening to most of the modern callers around."