Category: 2020

3rd December 2020 This gradual surge of gratitude started in my imagination… an overwhelming impulse to venture down into the basement… to root about in my audio-visual “archives” to see what’s there… to see what I might like to share — in gratitude for so many gifts that have come my way throughout my life in music. Oh, here’s an interview I did with my dear lesbian mother, Phyllis Lyon for NPR’s StoryCorp. Ah-hah! There’s a great conversation with Studs Terkel. And then there’s that environmental justice collaboration Honor Moore, Susan Griffin and I created back in the 80s… and what about those earnest “young Margie Adam” video performances from… Read More

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31st October 2020 A dear friend asked me today: “How are you on the eve of election…?” My first reaction was, I can’t bear to even think about it. My second thought was: I want to go on record. I want to say out loud — during the weekend before this extraordinary American Moment — how I am. I want you to know what I am thinking…and even more importantly, what I am doing. And actually, my heart is quiet this moment. Please click on the soundtrack I have chosen for this message: “Avalon-Remix.” If you can, just listen without reading until the soprano sax comes in… and then continue… Read More

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15th September 2020 Time is a collapsible concept. I remember the initial encounters with this truth, I felt so relieved… so liberated from the unconscious commitment that I must somehow hold myself to a sort of excruciating self-discipline in order to maintain a steady tempo from day to day, month to month, situation to situation. Today it is much later in the day – much farther down the road – and I am standing in what may be the middle or possibly just early days of a ghastly global pandemic. It is more challenging than ever, it seems to me, to “show up” for three appointed times in a single… Read More

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