Seth Weeks

Silas Seth Weeks (September 8, 1868 – December 1953) was an American composer who played mandolin, violin, banjo and guitar. Although he played many instruments he concentrated professionally on the mandolin. A review of his music by Lyon and Healy of Chicago indicated success, saying that he had included harmony with the melody in most of his arrangements. Recordings which have survived include:

(Record companies and dates come from a list of lost music published by the Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Board, and not from the Black Europe compact disk set.)

Poet And Peasant Concert Polka (Pioneer/Columbia/Edison) (1901/1903/1904) Handicap March (Pioneer/Edison Bell/Pathe) (1901/1903/1904) Georgia Camp Meeting (Pioneer/Columbia) (1901/1903) Hungarian Dance (Pathe) (1904) Poet And Peasant Soldiers In The Park (Pioneer) (1903), (Pathe) (1904)

List by the Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Board of recordings feared lost: Allegro (Pioneer/Columbia/Edison) (1901/1903) The Charlatan March (Berliner) (1900) Donauwellen (Pioneer) (1903) Jeunesse Doree (Nicole) (1904) Laburnum Gavotte (Pioneer/Columbia) (1903) Lumbrin' Luke (Columbia) (1904) Mazurka de Concert (Pioneer/Edison) (1901/1903) Overture (Pioneer/Columbia/Edison) (1903) Popular Airs Medley (Pioneer) (1903) The Washington Post March (Pioneer/Pathe) (1903/1904) Whistling Rufus (Pioneer) (1903)

Personal life He is the father of Fay E. Allen, an accomplished musician in her own right. Father and daughter would frequently play together with on at least once occasion they were invited to perform before King Gustav of Sweden. She would later become a distinguished music educator and the first African American to serve on the Los Angeles Board of Education.