I Turned Shakespeare Into an R&B Opera Steve Wallace On 3/9/21 at 5:00 AM EST
I am a hip hop, soulful, beat-making composer and opera singer, and I began singing opera by accident. Being from the south side of Chicago, classical music wasn t the world that was around me. My dad would have the Lyric Opera on PBS from time to time rarely and, of course, it was often on cartoons like Bugs Bunny, but there was no reason for me to ever be authentically interested in opera. R&B, Soul, Jazz, Gospel and Hip Hop were around me in a visceral way. I mean, I know it, like I know the smell of my mom s pancakes on a Saturday morning. It is in my pores. I didn t have to study it or learn to appreciate it, it is me. It makes up my experience and memories and is inextricable from the history that shaped the world I was brought up in.
I see this educated and dedicated cast
The teachers who shaped us like we were clay
Then filled us with knowledge day after day
This is a tribute to those teachers at Royal who in their own inimitable style implanted in our minds the learning skills and knowledge which in later years bloomed, blossomed and branched bearing diverse fruits, enriching institutions, professions and society. However this task is undertaken with great trepidation. Reams have already been written by more eminent persons on both the college and teachers. This contribution of mine is like a few drops of water being poured into an ocean. And that too, drops which are somewhat tainted, turbid and may even be troubling. Personal preferences and prejudices will be minced and mixed as thoughts get transformed into words. Extricating facts from fantasies, impressions from imperceptibles, can be delicate and dubious. And there needs to be added a subtraction. Some of the masters would be given a miss (no pun
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campaigning, but right now, this debate should not be about putting on scoring political points. it should be about doing what is right for the country. but while the president s demeanor may seem relaxed even under fire, his main opponent house speaker john boehner appeared hot under the collar at a news conference and then on the floor of the house, agitated and less than 24 hours after his zippity doo dah moment. president obama talks about being the adult in the room. where s his plan to cut spending and to raise the debt limit? but mr. speaker, our own polling found that a majority of the americans prefer the president s balanced approach to this looming crisis. is any relief in sight? apparently not, because the speaker was just as clear and perhaps more candid about his approach in a telephone conversation with rush limbaugh. rush, i m trying to do what i taught my kids to do and the same thing my parents do, you do the right things for the right reasons, and g
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