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" Ashokan Farewell " / əˈʃoʊˌkæn / is a musical piece composed by the American folk musician Jay Ungar in 1982. For many years, it served as a goodnight or farewell waltz at the annual Ashokan Fiddle & Dance Camps, run by Ungar and his wife Molly Mason, who gave the tune its name, at the Ashokan Field Campus of SUNY New Paltz ...
Sep 25, 2015 · It’s called “Ashokan Farewell,” and it’s the de facto theme song for the Ken Burns miniseries The Civil War, which premiered 25 years ago this week.
Ashokan Center programming is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature
Ashokan Farewell by Jay Ungar, performed by JR Perkins. Sorry that the video longer than it should be, it was my mistake.
Aug 21, 2016 · Ungar has written that he composed Ashokan Farewell in 1982, when the Ashokan Fiddle and Dance Camps had come to an end for the season. Ungar say this about the composition process of the work: “I was feeling a great sense of loss and longing for the music, the dancing and the community of peopple that had developed at Ashokan that ...
Sep 28, 2015 · It took Catskills fiddler Jay Ungar less than an hour to write "Ashokan Farewell," a haunting fiddle tune that has become an iconic folk song covered by legions of fans and memorably used by Ken Burns on the soundtrack of his documentary "The Civil War."
Nov 9, 2018 · Ashokan Farewell was named for Ashokan, a camp in the Catskill Mountains not far from Woodstock, New York.
Since the 17th century, 150 Ashokan edicts have been found carved into the face of rocks and cave walls as well as the pillars, all of which served to mark his kingdom, which stretched across northern India and south to below the central Deccan plateau and in areas now known as Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan.
The Ashokan Center (formerly the Ashokan Field Campus, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as the Ashokan Field Campus Historic District, [1] is a 385 acre outdoor education, conference, and retreat center located in the Catskill Mountains of New York.
Not to be confused with Ahsoka (disambiguation). Ashoka (/ əˈʃoʊkə / [ 6 ]ə-SHOH-kə; Sanskrit pronunciation: [ɐˈɕoːkɐ], IAST: Aśoka; c.304 – 232 BCE), and popularly known as Ashoka the Great, was Emperor of Magadha [ 7 ] from c. 268 BCE until his death in c. 232 BCE, and the third ruler from the Mauryan dynasty.
