Sing Sang Sung

Lots of guests today--Nick, Matea, and Arthur Rainbowbeam from music for human beings. Poems read: Belle Isle, 1949 by Philip Levine, When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer and selections from Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman, and Now, When The Waters Are Pressing Mightily by Yehuda Amichai. Also:

Archie Shepp/Naima/Four For Trane
Marion Brown/Delicidao/Three for Shepp
Charlie Haden/Turnaround/The Golden Number
Ornette Coleman/Waiting For You/Sound Grammer
Azimuth/Adios Iony/Azimuth '85
Jeanne Lee/Sundance & Your Ballad & Miracle Is/ Conspiracy,

but not in this order.

I've managed to mix up the titles of the songs in my head, and played The Miracle Is, when I meant to play Yeh Come T'be. Well, it will have to be for another time, another place.

Thank you for listening, and see you in September!

ps. here's philip levine's:

We stripped in the first warm spring night
and ran down into the Detroit River
to baptize ourselves in the brine
of car parts, dead fish, stolen bicycles,
melted snow. I remember going under
hand and hand with a Polish highschool girl
I'd never seen before, and the cries
our breath made caught at the same time
on the cold, and rising through layers
of darkness into the final moonless atmosphere
that was this world, the girl breaking
the surface after me and swimming out
on the starless waters towards the lights
of Jefferson Ave. and the stacks
of the old stove factory unwinking.
Turning at last to see no island at all
but a perfect calm dark as far
as there was sight, and then a light
and another riding low out ahead
to bring us home, ore boats maybe, or smokers
walking alone. Back panting
to the gray coarse beach we didn't dare
fall on, the damp piles of clothes,
and dressing side by side in silence
to go back where we came from.

Belle Isle, 1949

Well, well

There will be no flying ruckus this friday, because the DJ will be playing at the MIT FJE concert. If you're in the area, come by Kresge Auditorium at 8pm for some live music.

WMBR DJ Sheeva Azma will be covering the hour.

Until next time we meet!