Report #41

This week's poem is by Simon Ortiz from his collection Woven Stone (University of Arizona Press, 1992). The poem, "The Wisconsin Horse," includes this explanatory note: "It is late at night, lying drunk on the floor, hearing a church bell across the street, remembering that Wisconsin Horse this Spring."

The music for this week's episode is the title piece from Duke Ellington's Suite The River, here performed by the Tony Overwater Trio with the Calefax Reed Quintet. I was lucky enough to see this piece performed by the Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra as my first introduction to it. I was stunned and completely taken by the music. Another moment of realizing the wonderful gift mid-Michigan had in the late SBSO conductor Patrick Flynn.

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Report #41