Music
Musical Performance and Interludes by Classmates [and a few friends]
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In the Common Room
Timothy Dwight College
Join the Nearly Normal String Band aka Neil & Viva Araki for a sampling of acoustic roots music from their 28 years of musical collaboration. They will be playing some 60’s folk music (Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton) and then music from several traditions: Southern Appalachian (Doc Watson and old-time banjo and fiddle), folk blues and Celtic. In addition, there will be some contemporary folk and pop songs done in the string band setting.
[/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″]Friday after dinner
In the Common Room
Timothy Dwight College
The Whiffenpoofs of 1970 are back and sure to be better than ever. They are certain to regail classmates and friends with tunes of the day and some surprises. Rumor is that they even have been rehearsing.
Norm Zamcheck will provide his Stormin’ Norman bluesy sound in the Common Room after the Whiffs and will be joined by talented musician classmate Mark Pines.
Yale Bards | Yale ’70 bards Norm Zamcheck (“Real Stormin Norman”) and Mark Pines (“The Morning”) will perform their original compositions.
Saturday after dinner
Under the Tent
Timothy Dwight College
Back by popular demand: The Plastic Visitation is (and always was) a cover band (“We play the same stuff we played in 1967-70, which is Motown, Beatles, Rolling Stones, etc. This is music that people know, and want to dance to.”) The Plastic Visitation includes six Yalies (three ’70, one ’69 and two ’71). We will be playing a whole lot of songs, mostly from the 60s (Motown, Stax, Beatles, Stones, etc.), with a few post-1970 songs included (just to show that we are vaguely familiar with music less than 45 years old.)
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Sunday – 9:00 am Auditorium
Whitney Humanities Center
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Closing Songs
Mark Pines will provide music for the Yale70 Classmates Memorial, reprising his acclaimed performance from the 40th.
[/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″]Psalm 23
King David
Perhaps the most popular of King David’s prolific works, this psalm allegorically depicts the transitional journey from Life to Death and the solace we may derive from the believe that one’s existence has meaning. Living righteously is rewarded both in Life and in Afterlife; both the living and those who have passed are meant to receive comfort from their deeds. The words and images of the 23rd Psalm have resonated in the Human Spirit for thousands of years and will continue to instill Hope for many years to come.
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In the Garden
Mark Pines
“This is a song I wrote about the Cycle of Life. We start out with naive simplicity in our own personal version of the Garden of Eden, but our lives become more complicated as we move through them. Along the way we are compelled to leave our Garden and follow Life to its conclusion. Ultimately, we must choose whether to endure or whether to experience; this choice determines how we have lived our lives.”
Once we learn the Facts of Life, we can no longer stay,
In the peaceful sanctuary where we used to play.
If you must seek out the truth it often brings pain;
Sometimes you just get wet, sometimes you feel the rain.
Musical Interludes
Under the Tent, Timothy Dwight College
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday
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Tent PA
Over the PA under the Tent, we will be providing background music, perhaps even stimulating the mood. Music will be playing for certain events and will be more of a backdrop for a setting of conversations rather than for any serious listening. We will control the volume. We will be doing the iTunes Shuffle.
Music Play Lists have been compiled and provided from the personal collections of two community radio programmers [aka DJs]. Classmate Alex McNeil is a programmer at WMBR 88.1 at MIT. Charlie Pizzarello is a programmer at WERU 89.9 in Blue Hill, Maine.
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From Charlie
“I created two separate playlists at Jon’s suggestion. There’s a basic rock list that has 621 songs. There’s music from The Allman Brothers, The Animals, BB King, The Band, Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Dylan, some Bob Marley, Bruce Springsteen, The Doors, Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Simon & Garfunkel, Van Morrison…….etc, etc. It takes up 6.70GB of space and has a playing time of 1.7 days, according to the iTunes readout.
The other playlist is more Motown/soul-oriented. There are 197 songs from artists like Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, The Supremes, Dusty Springfield, Earth, Wind & Fire, The Four Tops, Isley Brothers, Otis Redding, Nina Simone and on and on. Total playing time is 10 hours, 53 minutes. This is only 1.56GB.”
[/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″]From Alex
“It sounds like we’re all set if you’re able to provide two full days of music! I’ll bring my iPod, too, which has about 11,000 songs on it, mostly from the 50s and 60s.”
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