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Suzan-Lori Parks, Diane Paulus, Deidre Murray : Three Women Collaborating
October 9, 2014 It won the 2012 Tony for the best musical revival, but the New York Times didn’t much like it, missing Gershwin’s full operatic scores in this “thinned-out” and “heavily-cut” version. Having no deep connection to the original, … Continue reading
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Tagged Another Country, Bill Kirchner, Billy Strayhorn, Derek Walcott, Diane Paulus, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, George Gershwin, Getting Mother's Body, Gil Evans, James Baldwin, Miles Davis, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nelson Riddle, Paul Simon, Porgy and Bess, Suzan-Lori Parks, The Capeman, The Red Letter Plays, William Faulkner
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Seamus Heaney: More Strange Fruit
August 8, 2012 This week I’ve been listening to many versions of “Strange Fruit”: Nina Simone, Jeff Buckley, Gil Evans and the Sting. I have to say: I still prefer Billie Holiday. But I had no idea Seamus Heaney also … Continue reading
Posted in African-American literature, collaboration, Comparative literature, contemporary poetry, Diaspora, Gender, globe, Irish literature, lyric, Modernist poetry, Music, Race, Racial violence, Remediation, Rock music, slavery, Translation, twentieth century art, Twentieth century literature, World history, world literature, YouTube videos
Tagged " Jutland, " Seamus Heaney, "Punishment, "Strange Fruit, Billie Holiday, Denmark, Gil Evans, Jeff Buckley, Nina Simone, North (1975), Northern Ireland, the Sting
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