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University of Science and Philosophy, Published 1968. Sheet music, 4 pp.; 30 cm; pictorial cover with blue-tinted photograph of the marble corridor at Swannanoa lined with portrait busts, a woman in an evening gown at center and a white statue beyond, title in cream script; piano-vocal, Andante, in A-flat major.
In Very Good condition. Cover with mild shelf wear, light creasing and a few small marks along edges and corners, light rubbing. Light toning to edges of p. 4; printing on p. 4 speckled and broken in places, as issued. Otherwise unmarked. Song in praise of Swannanoa, the 1912 Italian Renaissance Revival marble villa on the crest of the Blue Ridge above Rockfish Gap, Virginia, which Walter and Lao Russell leased in 1948 as the seat of their University of Science and Philosophy. Words by Lao Russell; music by Walter Russell (1871-1963), painter, sculptor of the Mark Twain Memorial and the Four Freedoms Monument, and author of The Universal One. Published by the University in 1968, five years after his death. The lyrics present Swannanoa as a shrine on the mountain, open to visitors from every land.