![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is for Peggy that MacColl wrote the classic First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. In 1959 she became a British subject and settled in London with Ewan MacColl, the British dramatist-singer-songmaker, by whom she had three children (Neill, Calum and Kitty). She went to Holland in 1955 (where she studied Russian in the language of Dutch!) and then took off on a spontaneous world tour that included Russia, China, Poland, most of NorthernEurope. She attended Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she majored in music and began singing folksongs professionally. Between the ages of 12 and 35 she learned to play guitar, five-string banjo, autoharp, Appalachian dulcimer and English concertina. By the age of eleven she was transcribing music and becoming conversant with counterpoint and harmony. She began to play the piano at seven years old. Peggy's formal music education was interwoven with the family's interest in folk music. Her mother, Ruth Crawford, was a composer and piano teacher her father, Charles Seeger, was an ethnomusicologist and music administrator. ![]()
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