Happy weekend!
MUSIC
The jazz choices a couple of weeks ago got a lot of response, none quite as passionate as Alok Gaur: “I love classical music which is jazzed up. One of my all-time favorite albums is Eugen Cicero’s Swinging The Classics on MPS. I think I listened to it a jillion times a few years ago.” Here he is “swinging” “Swan Lake,”beginning around 1:20 into the Andante and Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4uz2u5msPw
For those who want a special treat, try this article (with pictures) of the 100 greatest album covers of all time. Now you can flip through a bin of album covers from the comfort of your own laptop!: https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/the-100-greatest-album-covers/
And just to get us to smile, Justin Timberlake: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2020/03/20/coronavirus-100-songs-listen-while-youre-stuck-at-home/2882725001/
POETRY
Love After Love
By Derek Walcott
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
Happy Day,
Glenn
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