Tag Archives: South Pacific
“The Art of Loving” and two awfully beautiful songs
When we were children, our mother introduced us to music. A wide variety of genres in the form of LPs entered our house, and at night, when we’d gone upstairs to our bedrooms, she’d play orchestral recordings she loved. The … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, The Facts of Life, War on women
Tagged " "Carousel", "My Fair Lady", "Oklahoma", "Shall We Dance", "Something Wonderful", "The King and I, "West Side Story", "What's the Use of Wondrin", Beethovan quartets, Billy Bigelow, Brahms 2nd symphony, Gertrude Lawrence, Julie Jordan, Lady Thiang, Razumovsky Quartets, Rodgers & Hammerstein, South Pacific, The Art of Loving, The Weavers, Yul Brynner
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It has happened before
While our immediate world seems to have been turned upside down in the space of a couple of nauseating weeks, I am reading a book about the Constitution. Yes, this is one of those “I’m reading a book” posts. Can’t … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Government, Guns in the U.S. of A., Jan 6, Judiciary, Law, suits and order, Lawyers, Politics, Pro choice, The Facts of Life, Trumpism, voting and voting rights
Tagged 19th Amendment, 26th Amendment, Jennings Randolph, John W Kowal, Mary Martin, SCOTUS, South Pacific, the New Deal, The People's Constitution, Wilfred U Codrington III
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“You’ve Got To Be Carefully Taught”
A night or so ago, I was humming myself to sleep with a medley of songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s towering, magnificant musical, South Pacific. So today, instead of putting on a rock-pop-folk CD to get me into writing about … Continue reading
Posted in The Facts of Life
Tagged Lincoln Center, Oscar Hammerstein II, racism in South Pacific, Richard Rodgers, South Pacific, You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
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