From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V10 #80 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Thursday, May 7 2009 Volume 10 : Number 080 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] A review of the new cd and Antje's cd online ["Karen Zundel" ] Re: [RS] Silvio Rodriguez [LN Davis ] Re: [RS] Silvio Rodriguez [Sandy Smith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 06:05:14 -0400 From: "Karen Zundel" Subject: Re: [RS] A review of the new cd and Antje's cd online There's a very active Antje thread on the Ellis Paul Discussion board : http://www.ellispaul.com/discuss/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=25&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&sid=bdc95bb3060a0b9b2453bb92d55695e5 As well as a very active Richard Shindell thread: http://www.ellispaul.com/discuss/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=126&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&sid=bdc95bb3060a0b9b2453bb92d55695e5 KarenZ (who happens to moderate the EP Discussion Board) :-) - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 9:12 PM Subject: Re: [RS] A review of the new cd and Antje's cd online >>> By the way, does anyone know of an Antje discussion list? << > > There's one on Yahoo, but no one ever posts there. There's one on > www.antjeduvekot.net, but no one ever posts there. There's a discussion > section on www.antjeduvekot.com, but no one ever posts there. > > The only place where any type of Antje discussion happens, sadly, is on > the Patty Griffen forum. Look here under the "Misc (other than Patty)" > section. > > http://forum.pattynet.net/ > > RG ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 06:44:32 -0400 From: Jeff Bernstein Subject: [RS] Letter to Pete Seeger from Silvio Rodriguez Havana May 3, 2009 Admired and loved maestro Pete Seeger: At this moment dozens of singers are celebrating the tribute concert you richly deserve. I am thinking of some of the occasions on which I had the privilege of enjoying your talent, capable of seducing large numbers of people. I remember you in Havana, singing in solidarity together with the Grupo de Experimentaci'n Sonora; I remember that tour in various Italian cities, dedicated to Victor Jara; and I relive that frozen February night in 1980 when, responding to your call, we traveled from New York to Poughkeepsie and heard you sing "Snow, Snow", the masterwork of a man who asked questions of a winter landscape. I tried to return to be with you today, but, as you well know, it was made impossible by those who do not want the United States and Cuba to come together, sing together, talk together, understand each other. The ones who think the world is divided into the powerful and the weak; who only appreciate those who are rich and strong. The ones who will not forgive that although we are small we have decided to live standing tall. Reality cries that these brutes are becoming ever fewer in number, but somehow this minority still rules and commands. Some of them thought it dangerous that we might see each other, and that a simple act of brotherhood might symbolize two neighboring peoples coinciding in songs and affection. But not only I, dear Pete: all my dignified and certainly improvable country respects you and celebrates your nine honorable decades defending social justice, peace, and culture. Here no one sees you as a threat but as an extraordinary friend whom we are prevented from embracing with the freedom that we would desire. Not only I, but all of Cuba, embargoed as we still are by the abusers, loves you, and we are at your side now singing your prophetic We Shall Overcome and our Marti's Guantanamera. A kiss to Toshi and a strong embrace for you from Silvio Rodriguez Dominguez ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 15:09:18 +0000 (UTC) From: Karen Zundel Subject: [RS] Fish Records review of Antje's new CD (Shindell content) Folks, Here's another rview of Antje's CD: http://www.fishrecords.co.uk/reviews/theneardemiseofthehighwiredancer.htm KarenZ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 19:41:59 +0000 From: billchmelir@charter.net Subject: [RS] Silvio Rodriguez What kind of self respecting folk singer manages to get permission to travel from the Cuban government. That government which is happy to imprison citizens for dissent and has been run by 2 brothers for the last 50 years. Would any of you have any respect for a folk singer who was not in prison for his dissent if he lived in a country run by George and Jeb Bush for the last 50 years? His letter was posted on a Cuban Government controlled website. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 16:50:20 -0400 From: LN Davis Subject: Re: [RS] Silvio Rodriguez Um, Silvio Rodriguez is IN the Cuban government, actually. He was denied permission to ENTER from the US government. billchmelir@charter.net wrote: > What kind of self respecting folk singer manages to get permission to travel from the Cuban government. That government which is happy to imprison citizens for dissent and has been run by 2 brothers for the last 50 years. Would any of you have any respect for a folk singer who was not in prison for his dissent if he lived in a country run by George and Jeb Bush for the last 50 years? > > His letter was posted on a Cuban Government controlled website. > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 16:51:23 -0400 From: LN Davis Subject: Re: [RS] Silvio Rodriguez He's been a member of parliament in Cuba for 15 years. billchmelir@charter.net wrote: > What kind of self respecting folk singer manages to get permission to travel from the Cuban government. That government which is happy to imprison citizens for dissent and has been run by 2 brothers for the last 50 years. Would any of you have any respect for a folk singer who was not in prison for his dissent if he lived in a country run by George and Jeb Bush for the last 50 years? > > His letter was posted on a Cuban Government controlled website. > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 13:59:15 -0700 From: Sandy Smith Subject: Re: [RS] Silvio Rodriguez So in your view a folk singer -- in order to merit respect -- has to oppose his or her government, regardless of the nature of that government? Silvio Rodriguez is a leftist. Is it your theory that because he lives in a socialist country he should be singing about the virtues of capitalism? On May 6, 2009, at 12:41 PM, billchmelir@charter.net wrote: > What kind of self respecting folk singer manages to get permission > to travel from the Cuban government. That government which is > happy to imprison citizens for dissent and has been run by 2 > brothers for the last 50 years. Would any of you have any respect > for a folk singer who was not in prison for his dissent if he lived > in a country run by George and Jeb Bush for the last 50 years? > > His letter was posted on a Cuban Government controlled website. > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V10 #80 ***********************************