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Carmino Ravosa is an American songwriter

Songwriter

A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...

best known for his songs published by Silver Burdett & Ginn, currently a division of Pearson Scott Foresman

Pearson Scott Foresman

Scott Foresman is an elementary educational publisher for PreK through Grade 6 in all subject areas. It is owned by Pearson Education.-Company history:...

and numerous songs with themes related to American history. He is a graduate a 1957 graduate of the Hartt School of Music with a Master's Degree from Hartt School in Music Education in 1965.

He is the Composer-in Residence and Faculty Fellow at the Dalton School, a private school in New York City. He was formerly the composer in residence for the Edison Project now known as Edison Schools

Edison Schools

EdisonLearning Inc., formerly known as Edison Schools Inc., is a for-profit education management organization for public schools in the United States and the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1992 as The Edison Project, largely the brainchild of Chris Whittle...

and previously was a music teacher at the Fox Meadow School in Scarsdale, New York. He is an author for Silver Budett & Ginn's Music Textbook Series, "World of Music" and "The Music Connection" and the composer of the theme musicals in these series. He was a songwriter for the CBS children's show Captain Kangaroo

Captain Kangaroo

Captain Kangaroo is a children's television series which aired weekday mornings on the American television network CBS for nearly 30 years, from October 3, 1955 until December 8, 1984, making it the longest-running children's television program of its day...

, Romper Room

Romper Room

Romper Room is a children's television series that ran in the United States from 1953 to 1994 as well as at various times in Australia, Canada, Japan, Puerto Rico, New Zealand and the United Kingdom...

, the PBS program Shining Time Station

Shining Time Station

Shining Time Station is an American children's television series co-created by Britt Allcroft and Rick Siggelkow. The series was produced by The Britt Allcroft Company and Quality Family Entertainment in New York for New York City PBS Station WNET, and was filmed first in New York and then in Toronto...

, and also the PBS publication "Sesame Street Magazine".

On October 30, 1978, Ravosa gave a solo command performance of his musical "Ghosts in the White House" for President Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...

and First Lady Rosalynn Carter

Rosalynn Carter

Eleanor Rosalynn Carter is the wife of the former President of the United States Jimmy Carter and in that capacity served as the First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981. As First Lady and after, she has been a leading advocate for numerous causes, perhaps most prominently for mental...

at the White House Halloween party. He also performed his "Shh! We're Writing the Constitution" and "From George to George" at the inaugural ceremony for President George H.W. Bush and again at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History on President's day in honor of President George W. Bush

George W. Bush

George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

.

His musical "Seneca Falls" was performed at the National Women's Hall of Fame

National Women's Hall of Fame

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and later at Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....

. Another musical "Scarecrow", based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story Feathertop

Feathertop

"Feathertop" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1852.-Plot summary:In seventeenth century New England, the witch Mother Rigby builds a scarecrow to protect her garden...

, won four major awards at the International Light Opera Festival in Waterford, Ireland. He was the opening act with Dalton School students at the Gala Reopening Celebration of the Ellis Island Immigration Museum.

He has performed at many historic sites including: Washington's headquarters in Newburgh, New York and The Temple of Virtue at the New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site, as well as Washington's headquarters in White Plains, New York, Fraunces Tavern

Fraunces Tavern

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in Manhattan, the John Adams

John Adams

John Adams was an American lawyer, statesman, diplomat and political theorist. A leading champion of independence in 1776, he was the second President of the United States...

house in Quincy, MA (in a David McCullough

David McCullough

David Gaub McCullough is an American author, narrator, historian, and lecturer. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award....

teacher's seminar), the Paul Revere House

Paul Revere House

The Paul Revere House is the colonial home of American patriot Paul Revere during the time of the American Revolution. It is located at 19 North Square, Boston, Massachusetts, in the city's North End, and is now operated as a nonprofit museum by the Paul Revere Memorial Association. A small...

in Boston The music of Carmino Ravosa at Knapp's Tavern by Candlelight the Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine

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Museum in New Rochelle, New York, the Buckman Tavern

Buckman Tavern

Buckman Tavern is a historic American Revolutionary War site associated with the revolution's very first battle, the Battle of Lexington and Concord...

associated with the American Revolution

American Revolution

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's first battle

Battles of Lexington and Concord

The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy , and Cambridge, near Boston...

in Lexington, Massachusetts, and Washington Irving's home Sunnyside

Sunnyside (Tarrytown, New York)

Sunnyside is a historic house on 10 acres of grounds alongside the Hudson River in Tarrytown, New York. It was formerly the home of noted early American author Washington Irving, best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", and is a National Historic...

in Irvington, NY.

On July 4, 2011, two of Ravosa's songs were included in in HBO's Independence Day documentary, "Citizen USA", directed by Emmy Award-winning film journalist Alexandra Pelosi

Alexandra Pelosi

Alexandra C. Pelosi is a journalist, documentary filmmaker, and writer based in New York City. She is the daughter of Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Paul Pelosi...

. Marking his national television debut, this documentary focuses on the stories of new citizens across all 50 states. The film included a clip of Ravosa singing and playing "It's a Whole Other Country, Texas Is" and others singing a segment of "Let's Hear it for America".

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