music
Go see Duke Ellington’s sweet, tangy “Queenie Pie”
February 14, 2014Ellington was one of the most versatile figures in music of the 20th century, but most people do not know that from the 1930s on, Ellington worked intermittently, all the way up to his death in...
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Pete Seeger and American communism
February 13, 2014The death of Pete Seeger has sparked a worldwide outpouring of love, affection and appreciation for the life and legacy of this great artist, activist, humanitarian and socialist.
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Today in black history: Leontyne Price born
February 10, 2014Her voice was "rich, supple and shining, it was in its prime capable of effortlessly soaring from a smoky mezzo to the pure soprano gold of a perfectly spun high C."
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Poem: “Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie at Riverfest, St. Paul, Minnesota”
February 5, 2014From "The Death of Communism" (Partisan Press) and reprinted with permission.
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Subversive words that Mr. Seeger sang
February 5, 2014I was 16 years old when I first heard Pete Seeger at a concert in Detroit.
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