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It wasn't the perfect kind of night, the mists crept over the buildings like they were an oversized protist, and there was nobody quite like Emma, but when I heard them practicing A Bird of Passage from Cry, The Beloved Country, I thought Air would be a perfect title for the summer concerts' end.
Today is the 50th anniversary of the I Have A Dream speech, which leads to my burning question and my unwillingness to see what happens if I link to the offending blog because I don't think the blog deserves any more search engine optimization than it already has. The tribute is much needed because we as a species have more of a problem with race than we have in my lifetime. I wasn't around in the early 1960s, but still. Jim Crow? Ha! Crows are too smart to be segregationists. Even owls know better.
Battle Hymn of the Republic was arranged in a polyphonic way.
Michael Tippett wrote A Child of Our Time about the assassination of Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan and the Nazi's brutal response. The excerpts consisted of spirituals, sung by a 100+ person chorus and two soloists.
Kurt Weill's Cry, The Beloved Country is based on a novel set in post-WWII South Africa. Kurt was born in Germany and took the first train to The Hell Away From Germanysville as soon as the Nazis took over. Train to Johannesburg sounded like a train. A Bird of Passage was simply amazing.
Duke Ellington wrote a gospel-march dedicated to Martin Luther King. The other two Black Kings were Balthazar and Solomon.
Lee Hoiby set the I Have A Dream Speech to music, sung by a baritone.
Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait sounds like Aaron Copland and I know I described this long ago. I know they did it. I know I was there.
I just can't find it right now.
Here's to a better future for all of us.
burning question: Why is the Huffington Post giving a platform to chauvinistic racist pukes like Matt Walsh? I would HOPE that they only saw that one rant about customer service and didn't read the rest of his blog.
Today is the 50th anniversary of the I Have A Dream speech, which leads to my burning question and my unwillingness to see what happens if I link to the offending blog because I don't think the blog deserves any more search engine optimization than it already has. The tribute is much needed because we as a species have more of a problem with race than we have in my lifetime. I wasn't around in the early 1960s, but still. Jim Crow? Ha! Crows are too smart to be segregationists. Even owls know better.
Battle Hymn of the Republic was arranged in a polyphonic way.
Michael Tippett wrote A Child of Our Time about the assassination of Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan and the Nazi's brutal response. The excerpts consisted of spirituals, sung by a 100+ person chorus and two soloists.
Kurt Weill's Cry, The Beloved Country is based on a novel set in post-WWII South Africa. Kurt was born in Germany and took the first train to The Hell Away From Germanysville as soon as the Nazis took over. Train to Johannesburg sounded like a train. A Bird of Passage was simply amazing.
Duke Ellington wrote a gospel-march dedicated to Martin Luther King. The other two Black Kings were Balthazar and Solomon.
Lee Hoiby set the I Have A Dream Speech to music, sung by a baritone.
Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait sounds like Aaron Copland and I know I described this long ago. I know they did it. I know I was there.
I just can't find it right now.
Here's to a better future for all of us.
burning question: Why is the Huffington Post giving a platform to chauvinistic racist pukes like Matt Walsh? I would HOPE that they only saw that one rant about customer service and didn't read the rest of his blog.
