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Theater Days

Posted on May 11, 2011, 10:30 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theme Songs.

Whatever I was thinking, and I swear I don’t know, the result was that my little musical contribution to the theatrical end product was to strip out any musical context for a racial argument largely couched in musical terms.

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An Empty Room, Green Trolleys, and Brubeck

Posted on April 8, 2011, 11:34 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theme Songs.

However, for sheer guillotine-like intensity and definitiveness of severance, nothing in our society, short of divorces and funerals, begins to compare to the moment when parents leave kids off at college for the first time.

Tags: 116th Street, 1967, 19th Street Station, 37th Street, Adagio-Ballad, alumni, Ann Arbor, Arboretum, Bay City, Bookbinder's Old Original Bookbinder's, Brideshead Revisited, Broadway, Center City, Chambersburg, Charles Ryder, Cheetah Club, Dave Brubeck, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Detroit, Detroit Riots, Dialogues for Jazz Combo and Orchestra, Evelyn Waugh, Fiegel's, French Horn, freshman year, Gene Wright, Gettysburg, Glee Club, Harlem, Harvard University, Houston Hall, Howard Brubeck, Joe MOrello, John F. Kennedy Boulevard, lares and penates, Leonard Bernstein, Main Line, Main Street, Men's Dorms, Morningside Heights, New York, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Number 10 trolley, Paul Desmond, Pennsylvania Turnpike, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Cathedral, piano, Radcliffe College, Railway Express Agency, Sansom Street, Sansom Street Station, saxophone, Schuylkill Expressway, Sebastian Flyte, SEPTA, Sheraton, University Hospital, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, Valley Forge
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