Esfahani’s programme took the harpischord into the 21st century while the acclaimed partnership of Alina Ibragimova and Steven Osborne showcased the range of the festival and virtuosity of its performers
bobby, goodbye, bobby. i didn t want the train to stop. i wanted to continue on that train dreaming and hoping some way and somehow that we could have someone like bobby kennedy again. he gave people hope. he inspired the best of us. what i love about that, and i remember watching on tv. what grips me about it today is what s lost. the african american people in philadelphia where i grew up with 20,000 people at 30 street station singing spontaneously the battle hymn of the republic. and then those poor whites and people who live along train tracks tend to be poor people. and poor whites, they were poor as dirt some of them, saluting him almost religiously. that combination, that coalition seems to be in tatters right now. if somehow we can restore the