Voices and Songs
Listen to radio broadcasts, songs from the 17th century, Native American stories and more.
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"Captive Lands, Captive Hearts"
This five-part radio series was produced by Susannah Lee at WFCR in Amherst, Massachusetts, for the 300th anniversary of the raid on Deerfield. Each segment, built on interviews with historians and descendents, describes another facet of the Raid and the sources of the conflicts that led up to it.
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Creation and Deeptime Stories
These brief audio segments
are narratives that have been passed down from generation
to generation. These stories help define and guide a culture's identity.
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English Songs from the 17th Century
Period songs from England,
both sacred and secular, were carried to Deerfield by the
Puritans who settled here. This music provides an audible
flavor of the era during which the Raid took place. The renditions
heard here are by the Honest Harmony Singers.
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French Music from the 17th and Early 18th Centuries
This music, assembled by musicologists John
Burkhalter and Eugene Roan, is a sampling of music heard in
the courts, churches and concert rooms of both France and New France
at the time of the Deerfield Raid.
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The Captivation of Eunice Williams Opera
These three audio segments are selections
from an original opera based on the true story of Eunice Williams.
The opera was created by the artistic team of Paula Kimper
(composer), Harley Erdman (librettist), and Linda McInerney
(co-conceiver and co-creator, producer, and stage director)
and mounted in Deerfield in the Spring and Summer of 2004.
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