The Bombs Bursting in Air

This is my third annual 4th of July LetterToObama. It is an invitation.

The piece begins with photographs I composed at the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. and the Ft. Logan military cemetery in Denver, Colorado. The song is a Spiritual entitled “Stand Still Jordan.”

Then you hear and see text clipped from headlines of the May 18, 2011 New York Times newspaper. I arranged these words to create a poem entitled, “A composer changed the New York music scene. A Call for Revolution? Probably a Typo.”

The pages of this piece are numbered in reverse order to begin thinking about the ways that Memorials can reach beyond space and time. It is an invitation to the second of fo(u)r events presenting “Letters” to the 44th President through art on September 11, 2011 in New York City. It is an invitation to “artistic citizenship.”

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