Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Benjamin Britten – We Shall Overcome

Happy birthday, dude, and congratulations on shari...

2006-11-25T05:52:00.000Z

Happy birthday, dude, and congratulations on sharing astrological signs with so many interesting characters, especially Benjy Britten

I share my birthday with Richard Wagner and Harvey Milk, of all people.

Oh dear, how could I have forgotten? Jacob Obrecht...

2006-11-22T20:08:00.000Z

Oh dear, how could I have forgotten?

Jacob Obrecht, born November 22, 1458.

Jazz has been neglected here of late. So let's add...

2006-11-22T20:04:00.000Z

Jazz has been neglected here of late. So let's add Gunther Schuller, born November 22, 1925.

It truly is a magic day. Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, ...

2006-11-22T19:12:00.000Z

It truly is a magic day. Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, eldest son of JSB, was born on November 22, 1710.

And BBC Radio 3 has just told me that Kent Nagano ...

2006-11-22T17:57:00.000Z

And BBC Radio 3 has just told me that Kent Nagano was also born on November 22nd.

Which is neat, as he conducts the most recent version of Bernstein's Mass, although IMHO Lenny's own recording is far superior.

And I guess this could run and run, Joaquin Rodrigo was also born on November 22nd. I have always found it extraordinary that his divinely harmonius Concerto de Aranjuez was composed in that most discordant of years, 1939.

Garth, we should also remember that Leonard Bernst...

2006-11-22T17:15:00.000Z

Garth, we should also remember that Leonard Bernstein's Mass was commissioned by Jacqueline Kennedy in memory of her husband.

There was a lot of interesting discussion of Mass on my July 2005 article.

Happy birthday, pliable.Enjoy your special day!Whi...

2006-11-22T14:16:00.000Z

Happy birthday, pliable.
Enjoy your special day!

While Stravinsky's JFK Memorial Ode is certainly occasional, I don't believe that the same could be said about Herbert Howell's "Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing." Perhaps one of your readers has time to note what, in her or his opinion, are the most important dozen -- of hundreds -- works dedicated to the death of John F. Kennedy. (I can't seem to recall what Roger Sessions wrote on this death. Later, he dedicated his Walt Whitman Cantata "When Lilacs Last On The Dooryard Bloom'd" to the assasinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.)

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November 22 is also considered the second anniversary of Ukraine's peaceful Orange Revolution, in which citizen action overturned a rigged presidential election and demanded transparency in democratic decision-making. Commemorations are being held this evening in Ukraine and in Washington, D.C. and New York City, and, I assume, London as well.