![]() Their second Daniel would become a photographer and filmmaker, then Mika, a potter & muralist, and Tinya, also a potter. Their first, Peter Ota, died months after his birth. They remained married until her death in 2013. Lomax encouraged young Pete to consider going more deeply into his ever growing interest in Folk music. Critically he landed a job assisting the musicologist Alan Lomax as he archived “race” and “hillbilly” music for the Library of Congress. He had been playing the banjo and singing, and spent a summer touring with the Vagabond Puppeteers. ![]() Pete attended Harvard, but dropped out without taking a degree. But after hearing a five-string banjo in 1936 he devoted himself to mastering the instrument. In 1932 his father married the composer Ruth Crawford. Charles and Constance divorced when Pete was seven, his father assuming parental duties for the three sons. His mother Constance was a concert violinist and later a teacher at Juilliard.Ĭharles had been employed by the University of California to establish their music department, but was forced to resign the year before Pete was born due to his outspoken pacifism during the Great War. His father Charles was a composer and musicologist. ![]() Pete’s was an old American family of English & German descent. What follows is culled from those older reflections… ![]()
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