Editing Woodbury, Connecticut (section)

===The Woodbury Songbook===
[[File:Cover Noten Woodbury-Songbook Hanns-Eisler LWS1731.jpg|thumb|120px|right|Cover of a library copy of the ''Woodbury Songbook'' (which contains a spelling error of Woodbury's name)]]
The German composer [[Hanns Eisler]], who had taken asylum in the United States after fleeing from the Nazi rule in Germany, spent three and a half months (from June 15 to September 30, 1941) in Woodbury as the guest of another German refugee, Joachim Schumacher, and his wife Sylvia. Joachim taught classes in art history, musicology, philosophy, and other subjects at the [[Westover School]] in [[Middlebury, Connecticut|Middlebury]]. Sylvia taught piano at Westover School and privately in her home.<ref>''Westover School - Giving Girls a Place of Their Own'', Laurie Lisle, [[Wesleyan University Press]], Middletown, CT (2009), page 106</ref> Joachim enticed Eisler to compose 20 songs on 16 US children's verses or [[nursery rhyme]]s and four texts in the German language by [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe]], [[Eduard Mörike]] and [[Ignazio Silone]]. The songs were composed for female voices and suitable for a school chorus.<ref name="Songbook-booklet" /> This was published as ''The Woodbury Songbook'', or, in German, ''Das Woodbury Liederbüchlein'' with the lyrics in English and German, unfortunately with a wrong spelling of Woodbury (with two "r"s). The German translations are by [[Wieland Herzfelde]].<ref name="Songbook-Noten" />