NOBODY
ASKED ME BUT.......
1) How many times do you get to see a terrific
concert at no cost? Forget the $100
plus tickets at the arenas. Come over to
the Orangeburg Library (call for reservation—845 359-2244---FREE) on Sunday 12/2 at 2
PM. Do get there at 1 PM to view this multifaceted
artist’s art work. I speak of
CHRISTOPHER BROWN---Not Chris Brown----Rock’s problem.
2) Facebook might turn out to be the
psychotherapy out there and it is free (except for the annoying ads). Some people truly get their professional
information out there---and then there are the folks who post everything from
their shopping list to their bowel movements.
They are truly being helped by this medium since a “shrink” would charge
an exorbitant amount to have them vent and accomplish “zilch”. It may well be that Facebook will be the
downfall of the pontificating and pointless purveyors “pap” at exorbitant
rates. Shakespeare said it best (as
always) about these purveyors of panacea ----“...signifying nothing..” OK, it is the last line of a longer speech
talking of something else yet does apply here---just forget the “ sound and
fury part” which was not mentioned here.
3) An amazing array of wonderful new material
always arrives at this time of year for air on both Sunday Simcha and
Traditions. Let me just give you a few
items that might work for gift giving time---
For
SUNDAY SIMCHA Fans---
a)
The
Idelsohn Society---anything at all with special attention to Twas The Night Before Hannukah (2 CD set)—also
their Black Sabbath recording of African American Artists doing Jewish Music
b)
Susan
Colin and Joy Katzen Guthrie and any of their recordings. Two cantorial charmers of wonderful vocal
delivery
For TRADITIONS Fans---
a)
Kim
& Reggie Harris ---Resurrection Day
b)
Anne Hills---The Things I Notice Now
(Tribute to Tom Paxton)
c)
Suzie
Brown—Heartstrings (for the Prine cover song there)
d)
Iris
Dement---Sings the Delta---because she is Iris Dement
e)
Tune
in and find even more items of note.
4)
December
16 will be my last show for this year.
Ron Olesko will be doing the others for Christmas and New Years and I
return on January 5 with my special guest.
Mara Levine. She will be
debuting her new album and we shall have an interesting conversation about her
and her new CD. I will, on the last show
of the year for me, try to select some of the most meaningful music I have
played this year---it could be new, it could be classic, and mainly it will be
meaningful to me and, I hope, to you as well.
5)
It
is amazing how nothing dies on the internet.
I just rcvd. a request for a copy of an interview I did with THEODORE
back in 1998 or so and it was mentioned in the, now defunct, THE ALMOST DAILY
ROOSTER in 2008. The answer was “..not
available..” This brings up the
question---do you ever die on the internet even if you have left this world in
the true sense?
6)
I
wonder how the younger generation(s) can envision life without all the instant
communication of today’s world. Probably
as I cannot envision the days prior to automobiles and telephones (I am not
that old). Still, think of a few
things. Does this immediacy of
communication really make things better?
Was not, say diplomacy amongst nations, better when there was more time
for thought? Were kids not better off
making up their own games and fun? Did
it not make it more worthwhile to do research instead of a quick one liner from
a search engine (truth in commentary---that is still magic to me and
amazing)? Well, now the next line---“...get the hell off my
lawn...”
7)
As
we get to the end of the year I do want to thank all the listeners for their
interest and support of SUNDAY SIMCHA & TRADITIONS. I also want to thank so many of you who have
made SUNDAY SIMCHA such a part of your Sunday routine. And, I do not serve bagels and/or
coffee.
8)
I
am not a diplomat but I do have to wonder about the semantics of the U N
resolution granting non-member status to Palestine. Perhaps the person who stated that words are
powerful things has it right then. A
State in words only. Then again, let us
recall the British and the Balfour Declaration which talked of Palestine as a Jewish state (Home—to be
exact). Hmmmm!!!!!
