In some cases, the definitive version of a song is the cover version. Jimi Hendrix’s “All Along the Watchtower” is inarguably the definitive version, despite the fact that it’s a Bob Dylan cover. Some artists, notably Nina Simone, possess an uncanny ability to make every song they performed feel like an original. There is also the equally rare gift of incorporating a known song into an original composition, and making something completely new.
Join us at the Randall Oaks Library on Saturday, March 24, 1 to 2 p.m., for a fun sea-themed craft! All craft materials will be provided. Ages 5 to 8.
Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson passed away in February 2018. He was 48 years old.
“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks!”
-- William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 1
John Ashbery, arguably the dominant voice in American poetry for the last half-century, passed away on September 3, 2017. He was 90 years old. News of his passing brought to mind these closing words from his 1977 poem “Blue Sonata”:
Repurpose one of your old t-shirts into a book bag. No sewing required. Ages 9-12. Join us at the Ranall Oaks Library, Saturday, September 2, 1-2 p.m. You may register for this program on our event page.
“String Quartet No. 3: Mishima/Closing” – Philip Glass, performed by Kronos Quartet
“This late age of the world's experience had bred in them all, all men and women, a well of tears. Tears and sorrows; courage and endurance; a perfectly upright and stoical bearing.”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
