Politics and Music

I have the performance on an HMV 78 in near mint condition. Hard to find on YouTube in similar shape. I guess I’m lucky: I’ll have to put it online myself.
This is it for today. 

@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...