Sunday, July 3, 2011

Freedom

The 4th of July is a big day for musicians (and other performers) so I celebrate the day not just for the country but for the men and women in it who are still able to do what they love and live by doing it.   With so much fighting over every penny, The Arts are the easiest things to cut.   For every win, like Gay Marriage in New York, we have a loss, like NEA dismantling.  Yes, gay marriage is an appropriate topic for this blog, because the number of free lance performers that will get benefits from it is a large one.    So celebrate who we are, all of us.   And yes, that is hard, especially when people go on TV and lie, distort, demonize to keep power (or gain it.)    Just don't listen to 1812 Overture!    You fools, it's written by a Russian about a war between Russia and France...as in War and Peace.   Why are you using Russian music to celebrate American Independence?    Play some Gershwin instead.    Or Berlin, or Bernstein, or Sondheim or Porter or Barber or Ives or ANYBODY other than Tchaikovsky.    (Play him any other day.)

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