Tollefsen Trio <br /><br />"Old Black Joe" <br /><br />Stephen Foster is the composer <br /><br />Columbia A1809<br /><br />The Tollefsen Trio consisted of Carl H. Tollefsen (violin), Augusta Tollefsen (piano), and Paul Kefer (cello). <br /><br />The ensemble made recordings for Edison, Victor, and Columbia<br /><br />The group was best known for concert performances and recitals. <br /><br />The trio was first formed in 1904 and continued into the 1940s. <br /><br />The repertory was primarily classical chamber music with occasional folk and spirituals.<br /><br />Carl H. Tollefsen was the violinist. He was born in Kingston upon Hull in England, but his parents were Danish. <br /><br />He lived in the US since he was 6 years, where he worked all his life with his wife, the pianist Augusta Schnabel-Tollefsen.<br /><br />He died in New York in 1963.<br /><br /> Gone am the days <br />when my heart was <br />young and gay. <br /><br />Gone am the friends <br />from the cotton <br />fields away.<br /><br />Gone from this<br />earth to a better <br />land I know. I hear <br />their gentle voices <br />calling Old Black Joe.<br /><br />Tollefsen Trio "Old Black Joe" classic song by composer Stephen Foster (Gone am the days)
