From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V6 #66 Reply-To: lucy-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk lucy-list-digest Friday, March 26 2004 Volume 06 : Number 066 In this issue: Re: [lucy-list] Half the Sky donation Re: [lucy-list] Half the Sky donation Re: [lucy-list] Half the Sky donation [lucy-list] Half the Sky donation/cd [lucy-list] Lucy on Long Island 3/25, Part 1 [lucy-list] Lucy on Long Island 3/25, Part 2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:13:15 EST From: Steeleye77@cs.com Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Half the Sky donation Hi Kris! Great job with donations. The photos were great andLucy looked stunned! Anyway, just wondering if the CD's were sent yet? Thanks, Arno ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:15:48 EST From: Steeleye77@cs.com Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Half the Sky donation Oops! Didn't mean to send that out to the entire list. Sorry about that! Arno ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 06:55:55 -0800 From: "Gina" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Half the Sky donation Speaking of which, at a recent Lucy concert I sat next to a few families that traveled with her to China to get their very own babies. I told them about the effort and they were very touched. They were thrilled to see Lucy perform and pointed out the red thread tied to Lucy's finger on the photograph on the CD. Gina - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 6:13 AM Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Half the Sky donation > Hi Kris! > > Great job with donations. The photos were great andLucy looked stunned! > > Anyway, just wondering if the CD's were sent yet? > > Thanks, > > Arno ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:05:15 -0500 From: "Kristen Myshrall" Subject: [lucy-list] Half the Sky donation/cd Hi everyone, Some of you should have already recieved your cd. The first batch went out last week. Sorry for the delay, life has gotten incredibly chaotic. The first batch had been completed and then my cd burner decided to die on me. So I sent that batch out (Thursday I believe) and just purchased a new burner and have been trying to get it working on my computer (why oh why do they make everything for Windows and not Linux???) so the second batch is in the process of burning. I shoudl hopefully get them out tomorrow or Saturday. They are coming I promise!!!!! - -Kristen _________________________________________________________________ MSN Toolbar provides one-click access to Hotmail from any Web page  FREE download! http://toolbar.msn.com/go/onm00200413ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 01:03:12 -0500 From: Benay Bubar Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy on Long Island 3/25, Part 1 Well, I am home and about to fall into bed, but cannot resist a quick post about an adventurous, funny, and overall lovely evening. Lucy played Nassau Community College on Long Island tonight as part of the Nassau Community College Folk Festival, a free three-night event. Despite my lack of familiarity with the area and dependence on public transportation, Donald and Liz, visiting from Scotland, gamely agreed to join me. We met up at Penn Station at 4:30, and...well, I just have to say outright that I have trouble imagining a MORE enjoyable way to spend a few hours on a Thursday evening than going to a Lucy show with two incredibly kind, smart, witty, and thoroughly entertaining people with gorgeous Scottish accents, and I wish all of you the chance to see a show with Donald and Liz someday (although I'm afraid accomplishing that feat would leave poor Donald and Liz very tired!). But anyway...the three of us ended up taking a train to Mineola and then a taxi to the college, as I'd been advised by one of the festival organizers, and while it wasn't a route I would have chosen on my own, it turned out to be one of the smoothest public-transit trips to and from a show that I'd ever had. Donald and Liz at one point marveled at the way all the trains were coming on time and everything was working so well...and I had to break it to them that this wasn't necessarily representative of my general New York area public transit experience, and I was marveling too! The show was held in the college center building, a modern expanse of a building...and due to my rather obsessive planning and expectation of more transit troubles than we had, we were two hours early. The auditorium area was not far from the entrance, and there were few people around...to my surprise, we were easily able to stroll into the actual concert area and take seats in the third row in the nearly empty room, in the front of which was a stage where Lucy happened to be finishing up sound check! So we heard a couple of halting test lines of Hot Burrito #1 and got to wave to Lucy, who soon finished up and went to get organized for her actual performance. Once she left the stage, we soon decided to look around for something to eat, so we left our coats on our seats and wandered downstairs in the building for pizza and drinks. By the time we got back upstairs, to our surprise there was no more strolling into the concert area---we had to wait in line for 40 minutes. I hadn't realized they would be restricting things so much when it had been so casual earlier, and I wondered if we'd find our coats in a heap on the floor, but once we got in again, there our coats were and we ended up with somewhat accidentally pre-reserved seats. We couldn't stay long enough to see Richard's set, as we had to catch a train home and he was coming on WAY late...and we were lucky we WERE able to stay for Lucy's set, as she didn't come on well after 9. For the evening wasn't just Lucy and Richard...far from it. There were at least five acts scheduled in the evening, plus a "host" whose job was to come out as the stage people were frantically changing the sets around and distract the audience from the chaos with a couple of random songs. I'll give Lucy's set list first, as there's other stuff to discuss too. (Her set was only 40 minutes, so it was sort of a "greatest-hits" performance with very little storytelling aside from a short mention of Molly.) Written on the Back of His Hand Ten Year Night I Had Something This Is Home Don't Mind Me Brooklyn Train (on piano) By Way of Sorrow (with Richard Shindell) Lucy did a GREAT job. But I must say, for reasons that had absolutely nothing to do with the specifics of Lucy's performance, it was one of the funniest Lucy shows I've ever seen. I'll get to that. More to come... Benay ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 01:05:44 -0500 From: Benay Bubar Subject: [lucy-list] Lucy on Long Island 3/25, Part 2 Anyway, back to the beginning. FIrst up was the Harlem Blues and Jazz Band, and although I did not consider this to be my type of music, they were nonetheless very entertaining...not to mention how everyone marveled at the fact that their extremely energetic drummer was almost 93! A student chorus from the college did a little medley of South African freedom songs. And then came the act preceding Lucy's. It is fair to say that I'm not sure Lucy has ever had to follow something QUITE like this. I am speaking of spoken word poets...but not just ANY spoken word poets. Earnest-college-student spoken word poets. There were about five of them, and their poems were different but mostly followed a similar format: ENERGETIC BID FOR AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION. INTRODUCTION. SEXUAL REFERENCE. INTRODUCTION OF CONFLICT. ANGER. EXPLETIVE, EXPLETIVE. GRATUITOUS SEXUAL REFERENCE. ANGER, EXPLETIVE, EXPLETIVE. SEEMING RESOLUTION OF CONFLICT. DENIAL OF RESOLUTION OF CONFLICT. ESCALATING ANGER. SEXUAL REFERENCE. EXPLETIVE. I don't mean to knock the spoken-word poets. They were very earnest, and very...expressive. (And actually, one of them almost fooled me because I thought she was going to break the pattern...her poem started out tenderly with something like, "Oh, to be young, when we were happy and innocent..." But sure enough, it built up quite swiftly to the equivalent of "...yes, oh, to be young, before we started thinking about DRUGS AND SEX!!!") I couldn't help it. I was cracking up. Not at the spoken word poets, per se, but at the fact that Lucy was DIRECTLY following this! Talk about incongruous. I mean, sure, there's the kitchen floor thing, but...and then I was off and running to imagine what would happen if, say, Ten Year Night became a spoken word poem ("OPEN YOUR EYES, DAMN IT!")...and then I just got punchy and couldn't quite pull myself together for the rest of the evening. The frogs didn't help any. Throughout the evening, behind the performers, there was this HUGE, brightly projected image of the Nassau Community College Folk Festival logo in white on a red background. Not being a terribly visual person, I'd just sort of been seeing it as a lovely, complex abstract design. But in the middle of Lucy's set, for no reason at all, it crystallized for me: Wait, those are FROGS! SINGING frogs! Particularly jubilant cartoon frogs, complete with instruments, singing their little frog hearts out! So there was Lucy, performing after the spoken word poets and in front of the joyous singing frog picture...and I'm sorry, it just seemed terribly funny. Not LUCY...she was great, as ever...but the circumstances. And then when Lucy sat down at the piano, there was this HORRIBLE ongoing loud feedback sound... She got up; the sound stopped. "That wasn't my fault!" Lucy exclaimed. She sat down again...no loud feedback, but instead a horrendous microphone screech. "Was THAT your fault?" some audience member yelled from the back. "I don't think so...was that my fault?" Lucy asked. "No, it wasn't!" yelled the sound man decisively. Smart sound man. If he'd blamed Lucy, we would perhaps have had to rush him in a mob (OK, maybe just a three-person Scottish and American mob) to defend Lucy's honor! I started giggling at that image, too. And I haven't even mentioned the stage lighting yet. The show was a collaboration between students and professionals, and they had a lot to pull together, and they did a pretty excellent job overall. But I think perhaps the students were helping out quite a bit with the spotlights. When Lucy sat down at the piano, a spotlight blinked dutifully on over her, but it was focused mostly on her lower body and it bathed her in a rather sickening shade of yellow. As she sang Brooklyn Train, the light proceeded to switch from yellow...to blue...to red...to green...to purple...not in a contemplative, mood-setting sort of way, but in a rather frantic manner. It cycled desperately through about eight different colors, then ended with this sort of disco effect that combined flashes of pink and blue. Immediately FOLLOWING this, Lucy called Richard to the stage to finish with By Way of Sorrow, and as soon as he graced the side of the stage, he was hit dead-on with an incredibly bright white spotlight. Lucy, in the center and about to finish HER set, was in comparative darkness. She joked: "Oh, good, Richard gets a spotlight. Do I get one too? Just want to be sure I get one too..." And while there wasn't a sound from the lighting people, you could almost hear the wheels turning frantically in someone's head: "Damn! We need another spotlight! WHERE is that other spotlight???!!!" Then, success...sort of. A spotlight that was apparently meant for Lucy valiantly appeared and did a little mating dance with Richard's spotlight before settling in to steadily illuminate, for the remainder of the song...part of the rear wall, plus Lucy's right shoulder. And soon after that we were whisked home by taxi and Long Island Rail Road so I could stay up too late and share with you all what was a truly unique and glorious evening of lovely music and...um...unintended comedy. And now I am off to bed, awaiting more Lucy and Richard (presumably with better lighting and without spoken word poets!) on Saturday... Benay ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V6 #66 ****************************** This has been a posting from the Lucy Kaplansky mail list digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe lucy-list-digest" in the body of the message