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[sanura]

So much, and yet so little, has gone on in the last few days. We cast the show (both shows), broke some hearts, tried to fix them, took Stephan to the airport, played with Susan, tried to go skydiving (the weather precluded it, but the people at the place are very interesting, and we'll go later this week), came back to Dan's house, got some movies to procrastinate with, happened across Joodles and Catherine, kidnapped them, and watched Galaxy Quest with them and Holger (Dan takes care of him when Susanne's out of town).

Now, I really have to do work before I die. But look! Susanne says we can have a Hair-style studio recital:

Studio recital: after brainstorming with dan we thought of doing a
recital based on the now 50 year old "Make love, not war".
We can choose music from any time but if there is something appropriate
from the 60's all the better.1968 was a historic year what with deaths
of MLK and RFK. and other major protests etc., not to mention the war.
So ideas could be:

Flower power
anti war
peace theme
MLK related
Civil rights related

Simple Song from Bernstein's Mass
Bernstein's Candide- ensemble "Make our garden grow".
Lift Evr'y Voice and Sing- civil rights anthem

music by African american composers: Still, Bonds....

Sarah: Mädchenblumen ?
Julie: Veilchen?
Rebecca : Fleurs (Poulenc)
John: Ruhe meine seele?

Rorem: Comment on war- S/M duet from "evidence of things not seen"

Berio "O King" with instruments (Ryan?) based on Martin Luther King

Weil: Walt Whitman songs (war related)
Ives: Walt Whitman songs
Hoiby: O captain my captain
Holst: The Last Sunbeam (Whitman)
Rorem: Look down fair moon- (Whitman)
Ives The song of the dead
Britten: The Mistrel boy
trad. O danny Boy- John?

DuParc. Au pays ou se fait la guerre- Rebecca?
Stravinsky: Elegie for JFK with clarinets

John Corigliano wrote some songs for Sylvia McNair to texts by Bob Dylan

Comments

[brouhaha.livejournal.com]

Cool idea for a recital!