If you didn’t see her performance last night, you should see it now, before it disappears.
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
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Michael Leddy“Orange Crate Art” is a song by Van Dyke Parks and the title of a 1995 album by Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson. “Orange Crate Art” is for me one of the great American songs: “Orange crate art was a place to start.”
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Nancy, October 19, 1950.
“Who are we as a country?”
Michael Leddy
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Words to live by
Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat.
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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Νέος ἐφ’ ἡμέρῃ ἥλιος. [The sun is new every day.]
Heraclitus
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Every day is a new deal.
Harvey Pekar, “Alice Quinn”
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Nos plus grandes craintes, comme nos plus grandes espérances, ne sont pas au-dessus de nos forces, et nous pouvons finir par dominer les unes et réaliser les autres. [Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.]
Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again
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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try.
Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living
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I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one.
J.D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction
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I’m not afraid to get it right
I turn around and I give it
one more try
Sufjan Stevens, “Jacksonville”
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L’attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité. [Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.]
Simone Weil, in a letter
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
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Νέος ἐφ’ ἡμέρῃ ἥλιος. [The sun is new every day.]
Heraclitus
*
Every day is a new deal.
Harvey Pekar, “Alice Quinn”
*
Nos plus grandes craintes, comme nos plus grandes espérances, ne sont pas au-dessus de nos forces, et nous pouvons finir par dominer les unes et réaliser les autres. [Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.]
Marcel Proust, Finding Time Again
*
Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try.
Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living
*
I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one.
J.D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction
*
I’m not afraid to get it right
I turn around and I give it
one more try
Sufjan Stevens, “Jacksonville”
*
L’attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité. [Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.]
Simone Weil, in a letter
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Nancy, October 19, 1950.
comments: 5
Wow, what a woman!
By the end of the first chorus, I was on my feet, singing (well, that's what I call it) along with her, swaying and crying. I saved it to my favorites, then went back to listen again. Thanks for the link, Michael.
(Then I got lost in the tribute to the Almighty Bruuuuce, located in the sidebar.)
Going back for more Aretha. Listening to good r&b, good rock and roll is a great way to bring in the new year; a lovely, raucous way to lay the old year to rest.
Also loved that the backup singers weren't young'uns, either.
A few years ago, Heart did a great tribute to Led Zeppelin, although Obama wasn't quite as much into it. :)
I had tears in my eyes watching, and before Obama did. :) Or at least before the camera went to him.
The same YouTuber who shared this clip posted Heart three years ago. (Why is there no official Kennedy Center YouTube account?)
I’m wondering if anyone will identify the backup singers online. Till then, there’s 20 Feet from Stardom .
Someone commented that those cuts to people's reactions are edited iater, so you don't know who bawled first. :) (Not sure that's true. Someone was complaining about Carole King.)
This could be an official account. https://www.youtube.com/user/TheKennedyCenter
The National Park Service had one, then for reasons I didn't understand, moved, so I have two accounts to switch between (the one for older stuff).
There's a version of Heart where there's a reveal of the drummer, and everyone gasps because it's Jason Bonham, who bears a good resemblance to his dad, especially in the hat. There's a theory that's what made Plante cry.
D’oh — they do have an account. When I went looking for this performance and didn’t find anything from the Kennedy Center, I mistakenly concluded that they were missing. Why they (or CBS) don’t make these things available puzzles me.
I’m not a Led Zeppelin fan, but I’ll watch to see that.
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