{"id":45916,"date":"2025-01-07T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?p=45916"},"modified":"2025-01-08T13:39:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T18:39:18","slug":"remembering-yarrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/remembering-yarrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Peter Yarrow \u201959, Whose Love of Folk Grew on the Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">The music great was motivated by a legendary Cornell course\u2014and a fellow alum&#8217;s poem inspired one of his classic songs <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: This story was adapted from <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2025\/01\/folk-icon-peter-yarrow-59-peter-paul-and-mary-dies-86\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>a report<\/em><\/a><em> in the <\/em>Cornell Chronicle<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By <strong>Caitlin Hayes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Musician Peter Yarrow \u201959, who drew early inspiration from his time on the Hill before joining the legendary folk trio Peter, Paul, and Mary, died January 7, 2025, in Manhattan. He was 86.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1961, Yarrow teamed with Mary Travers and Noel Paul Stookey to form one of the most popular folk acts of the 1960s. They would go on to place six songs and five albums in the Billboard\u2019s top 10, with two albums reaching number one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yarrow wrote or co-wrote iconic songs including \u201cPuff, the Magic Dragon\u201d\u2014whose lyrics were based on a poem by fellow alum Leonard Lipton \u201962.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A psychology major in Arts &amp; Sciences, Yarrow cited as inspiration a course\u2014officially called American Folk Literature, but affectionately known as <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/legendary-courses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Romp-n-Stomp<\/a>\u2014taught by professor and folklorist Harold Thompson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"770\" height=\"884\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Peter_Paul_and_Mary_1963.jpg\" alt=\"The singing group Peter, Paul, and Mary in 1963\" class=\"wp-image-45911 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Peter_Paul_and_Mary_1963.jpg 770w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Peter_Paul_and_Mary_1963-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Peter_Paul_and_Mary_1963-768x882.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Peter_Paul_and_Mary_1963-632x726.jpg 632w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Peter_Paul_and_Mary_1963-316x363.jpg 316w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Peter_Paul_and_Mary_1963-400x459.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Peter_Paul_and_Mary_1963-200x230.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/Peter_Paul_and_Mary_1963-100x115.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><figcaption class=\"rkv-image-credit\">wikimedia commons<\/figcaption><figcaption>Peter, Paul, and Mary in 1963; Yarrow is on the right.<\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Yarrow served as a student instructor for the class, where he was paid a stipend of $500\u2014which at the time was 20% of his Cornell tuition, he said\u2014to lead students in songs related to the course content. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This included murder and Dust Bowl ballads, and spirituals sung by enslaved peoples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf you take what I learned in Romp-n-Stomp and look at Peter, Paul, and Mary in the march on Washington in 1963, singing \u2018Blowin\u2019 in the Wind\u2019 and \u2018If I Had a Hammer,\u2019 it was just an extrapolation from Romp-n-Stomp,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2009\/06\/peter-yarrow-59-leads-rompin-good-time-bailey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yarrow later said<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Yarrow returned for his 50th Reunion in 2009 to take part in a Romp-n-Stomp revival, playing with other alumni musicians and leading more than 900 people in song in Bailey Hall. He returned to perform at his 60th Reunion in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cornell was \u201ca place where I felt comfortable,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peter Yarrow was born May 31, 1938, in Manhattan to Jewish immigrants from Ukraine. He attended the High School of Music and Art (now the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music &amp; Art and Performing Arts) in Manhattan, where he studied painting, and took up playing and performing music while at Cornell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignwide is-style-solid-color\"><blockquote><p>Yarrow returned for his 50th Reunion in 2009 to take part in a Romp-n-Stomp revival, playing with other alumni musicians and leading more than 900 people in song in Bailey Hall.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After graduation, he moved back to NYC and began to make a name for himself in the Greenwich Village folk scene. He connected with Albert Grossman, a founder of the Newport Folk Festival, who set him up with Travers and Stookey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1961, the newly formed trio of Peter, Paul, and Mary\u2014which had originally been dubbed the Ivy League Three\u2014released their first album under Warner Bros. Records. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The self-titled album went on to reach number one on the Billboard charts and sell more than 2 million copies. In the next nine years, the group released eight more albums, with 12 songs reaching Billboard\u2019s top 40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/2019_1328_LF_005_crop-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Yarrow '59 (of the iconic singing group Peter, Paul and Mary) performs in a free concert in Call Auditorium in 2019\" class=\"wp-image-45913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/2019_1328_LF_005_crop-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/2019_1328_LF_005_crop-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/2019_1328_LF_005_crop-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/2019_1328_LF_005_crop-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/2019_1328_LF_005_crop-1600x900.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/2019_1328_LF_005_crop-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/2019_1328_LF_005_crop-608x342.jpg 608w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/2019_1328_LF_005_crop-304x171.jpg 304w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/2019_1328_LF_005_crop-152x85.jpg 152w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/2019_1328_LF_005_crop-1184x666.jpg 1184w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/2019_1328_LF_005_crop-592x333.jpg 592w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/2019_1328_LF_005_crop-296x166.jpg 296w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/2019_1328_LF_005_crop-1264x711.jpg 1264w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/2019_1328_LF_005_crop-632x356.jpg 632w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/2019_1328_LF_005_crop-316x178.jpg 316w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/2019_1328_LF_005_crop-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/2019_1328_LF_005_crop-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/2019_1328_LF_005_crop-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/01\/2019_1328_LF_005_crop.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Performing during his 60th Reunion in 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The group was overtly progressive in its politics, and remade Bob Dylan\u2019s \u201cBlowin\u2019 in the Wind\u201d into a civil rights anthem when they sang it on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, at the site of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later, they performed for presidential campaigns and at marches to protest the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the band split in 1970, Yarrow released a solo album and continued to write songs, reuniting with the group for benefit concerts and, after 1978, to tour regularly, which they did until Travers\u2019s death in 2009. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignwide is-style-solid-color\"><blockquote><p>The group was overtly progressive in its politics, and remade Bob Dylan\u2019s \u201cBlowin\u2019 in the Wind\u201d into a civil rights anthem.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2000, he founded <a href=\"https:\/\/operationrespect.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Operation Respect<\/a>, a nonprofit dedicated to creating safe and tolerant learning environments for schoolchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yarrow is survived by his wife, Mary Beth McCarthy, as well as a son, daughter, and granddaughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese songs are around,&#8221; he said of the music trio&#8217;s legacy during an appearance on a WNYC podcast in 2014. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;They\u2019re in the summer camps. They\u2019re in the schools. They\u2019re in the churches, the synagogues, the mosques even. They\u2019re not going away. They were there before the folk renaissance, and they will stand as part of our culture for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Top: Yarrow at his 50th Reunion in 2009. 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