11.   There are social songs, the kind sung around the powwow drum and hand-held drums, and spiritual music, including the songs my mother sings.

12.   This is why any mother on the planet will sing to a baby.

13.   Her early influences were the traditional tunes played by her father, an amateur fiddler, and the contemporary songs her mother sang.

14.   Her mother sang in concerts, and as a youngster Harriette learned piano and trained as a lyric soprano.

15.   His mother sang in the Claremont Methodist Church choir, at weddings and funerals.