The Final Curtain

The Honorable Tony Mack: ~ 1:02

excerpts from public speeches

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TRENTON DOG ~ 10:52

Words ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Music ~ Sacco E. Vanzetti

An Adaptation of Lawrence Ferlinghetti 's poem, “Dog”. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, born in 1919, is an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co- founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. Author of poetry,translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and film narration. In 1953, Ferlinghetti co-founded the City Lights Bookstore, the first all paper bound bookshop in the country. Two years later he launched the publishing wing of City Lights with his own first book of poems, Pictures of the Gone World, the first number in the Pocket Poets Series. This volume was followed by books by Kenneth Rexroth, Kenneth Patchen, Marie Ponsot, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Robert Duncan, William Carlos Williams, and Gregory Corso. Although City Lights Publishers is best known for its publication of Beat Generation writers, Ferlinghetti never intended to publish the Beats exclusively, and the press has always maintained a strong international list.

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Billie Holiday Dialogue ~ 0:34

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BALM OF GILEAD ~ For Billie Holiday & Lester Young ~ 9:00

Words ~ Kamau Daáood
Music ~ Sacco E. Vanzetti



Kamau Daáood A mythic figure in the Southern California arts scene, Kamau Daáood is a performance poet, educator and community arts activist who is widely acknowledged as a major driving force behind Los Angeles' black cultural renaissance. .. "I was taught that the concept of the local artist is a noble one. That to live and work in a community and to be known for that work, is very dignified."

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Oliver lake Dialogue ~ 1:08

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SEPARATION ~ 4:59

Words ~ Oliver Lake
Music ~ Sacco E. Vanzetti



Oliver Lake is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer and poet. He is known mainly on alto saxophone but also performs on soprano saxophone and flute. During the 1960s Lake worked with the Black Artists Group. Born in Arkansas in 1942, Oliver moved to St. Louis at the age of two. He began drawing at the age of thirteen Oliver Lake and paints daily, using oil, acrylics, wood, canvas, and mixed media. At 17, he began to take a serious interest in jazz. Lake moved to New York in the mid-'70s, working the fertile ground of the downtown loft scene and quickly establishing himself as one of its most adventurous and multi-faceted artists. ... "It's all about choices," states modern Renaissance Man Oliver Lake to explain his expansive artistic vision.

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William Parker Dialogue ~ 1:06

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I DREAM A WORLD ~ 8:53

Words ~ Langston Hughes
Music ~ Harold Arlen & Sacco E. Vanzetti



An Adaptation of the Langston Hughes Poem by the same name over an Improvisation of Harold Arlen's "Somewhere Over The Rainsbow." James Langston Hughes was born in 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. His parents divorced when he was a small child, and his father moved to Mexico. He was raised by his grandmother until he was thirteen, when he Langston Hughes moved to Lincoln, Illinois, to live with his mother and her husband, before the family eventually settled in Cleveland, Ohio. It was in Lincoln, Illinois, that Hughes began writing poetry. His life and work were enormously important in shaping the artistic contributions of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.

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John Cage Dialogue ~ 0:26

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SOUND ~ 11:57

Words ~ John Cage
Music ~ Sacco E. Vanzetti



John Milton Cage Jr. (1912 – 1992) was an American composer, music theorist, writer, and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in John Milton Cage music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential American composers of the 20th century. His teachers included Henry Cowell and Arnold Schoenberg, both known for their radical innovations in music, but Cage's major influences lay in various East and South Asian cultures. Through his studies of Indian philosophy and Zen Buddhism in the late 1940s, Cage came to the idea of aleatoric or chance-controlled music, which he started composing in 1951.

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