Politics and Music

@mahgister 

i have all of his work on LP. I have the Oppens performance of People United, but the performance I shared here by a student at SUNY Stonybrook is remarkable. 

The performance of Cottonmill Blues shared here is also insanely good. 

Of course, Rzewski’s performances are not to be missed. Most can be found on YouTube these days. 

I lied. One more, by the great Laura Nyro. I love the way she curls up her hands into fists and pounds the keyboard at 0:23

I think that it is fair to say that all of the artists that I have taken the liberty of posting here are great artists performing at peak form, that all of the work is moving, and that all of it, by intention and design, is implicitly to overtly political (closer to overtly), and that the political views are expressed with intelligence, subtlety, grace, humor, and depth of feeling.

You are right!

Thanks...

@mahgister 

I met both Oppens and Rzewski when I was attending The Cooper Union. Dore Ashton, the highly regarded art history scholar, Dean of the art school, a card-carrying communist and the most important influence on my intellectual development, didn’t need any excuses to veer off topic and bring people like them in to speak to her classes. 
 

I was very blessed.