One of those ironies of Life/Art.
Tonight, I was watching a TV broadcast of the original movie version of Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story, with its classic reworking of the story of Romeo & Juliet reset in 1950s New York, replacing Shakespeare’s feuding families with gangs of White & Puerto Rican teen-agers.
After it’s over at 11pm, I switched to Channel 21 News to hear this, by way of this Associated Press bulletin:
POTTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) -- An all-white jury on Friday acquitted two Pennsylvania teenagers of all serious charges against them stemming from the fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant last summer.
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." -- Henri Bergson
The Music Appreciation Thrillers by Dick Strawser
"A piece that ten people care passionately about is worth more than a piece that 10,000 people don't mind listening to." -- Charles Rosen
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"If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must motivate any true artist, makes him aware that our Nation falls short of its highest potential. I see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist." - John F. Kennedy
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About Me
- Dick Strawser
- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
- Dr. Dick is a classically-trained musician and recovering composer who enjoys writing about music.
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"Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money." ~ Ernst Levy
"The main thing is to love the work that you do, because you may get no other reward." -- Philip GlassLinks
- The Arts Journal
- Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
- Soho the Dog
- Sequenza21
- The New Music Box
- On an Overgrown Path
- Musical Perceptions
- Frank Delaney's Podcasts, Re:Joyce (Reading James Joyce's "Ulysses") [left unfinished at Delaney's death
- One of my Cats' Favorite Blogs (Abbie the Cat, 1997-2013)
- Another Favorite Site for the Cats
- The Best Little Cat House in Pennsylvania
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ELLIOTT CARTER
Dec. 11, 1908 - Nov. 5, 2012
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