Everyone agrees that solving today’s complex and troubling global challenges will require new ways of thinking and working. A majority of Fortune 500 companies tell us that, even more than reading and math, American students need to be learning the core skills of innovation to succeed in a competitive world economy. How do we ingrain … [Read more…]
Ballad Across the Aisle for Ailing Senator Touches Many in Congress; May be Played at the Democratic Convention http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2008/07/16/across_the_aisle_a_ballad_to_kennedy/?s_campaign=8315—–
“Armstrong, Goodman, Gillespie and the rest were linking freedom in music with freedom in life.” Above, Louis Armstrong in Cairo in 1961. We can argue all we want about the “intrinsic verses the instrumental value” of the arts. We can take our MBA’s and social entrepreneurs and calculate the SROI (return on social investment) and … [Read more…]
It was a year that would teach her the satisfaction of tiny victories in a place where homelessness means that some kids cannot take their instruments home to practice, where chronic asthma forces some to switch from wind instruments to percussion, where the roar of a lunchroom leaves a newcomer stunned. Ms. Vegter, 25, was … [Read more…]
Something about music… “Camp” debuted to 8.9 million total viewers Friday night, with fans holding viewing parties nationwide. A second airing Saturday night on ABC pulled in 3.6 million viewers, while a third airing Sunday on ABC Family averaged a solid 3.7 million viewers, according to Nielsen. Meanwhile, the movie’s premiere in Canada became Family … [Read more…]
“The despair gripped me, like a nightmare had become my life,” said Ms. Ahmad, 26, a shy law student from Malaysia who claims she is innocent of charges of trying to smuggle cocaine on a flight from Caracas to Paris. “But when the music begins, I am lifted away from this place.” Ms. Ahmad plays … [Read more…]
Music’s a uniter, not a divider! It certainly transcends political parties, religious affiliations, ethnicities and most everything else that can come between us. Senator Obama (Michelle above w/ Stevie) wants to create an “Artist Corps.” Governor Huckabee (above, smiling w/ his bass) wants to make universal music and arts education the law of the land…Hmmm, … [Read more…]
From David Brooks, today, NYT: “Then they get spiritual. In Slate, Robert Wright only semi-facetiously compared Woods to Gandhi, for his ability to live in the present and achieve transcendent awareness. Analysts inevitably bring up his mother’s Buddhism, his experiments in meditation. They describe his match-mentality in the phrases one might use to describe a … [Read more…]
Luke Russert, son of the late ‘Meet the Press’ moderator Tim Russert, touches his father’s empty chair on the darkened set at NBC studios in Washington. Democratic strategist James Carville and wife, Republican strategist Mary Matalin, regular ‘Meet the Press’ guests, burst into tears during taping of Sundays tribute show.—–
Tim Russert dies at 58. For me, Sundays will never be the same…but the loss of Tim Russert is bigger than the sadness we all feel in his absence. In my opinion, through his weekly show “Meet the Press,” Tim played a key role in making our democracy work. I’m not exaggerating. Tim was unique … [Read more…]