After a fascinating conversation with #StephenColbert about the meaning of music, legendary cellist #Yo-YoMa takes the stage for a gorgeous performance that begins with Bach and blends into #HaroldArlen and #YipHarburg 's classic, #OverTheRainbow. youtu.be/BJVC4WGYcZ8?...

Bach Prelude from the 1st Cell...
Bach Prelude from the 1st Cello Suite / "Over The Rainbow" - Yo-Yo Ma (LIVE on The Late Show)

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"AMY GOODMAN: And why didn’t he believe in World War I?

"ERNIE HARBURG: Because [#YipHarburg] was a full, deep-dyed #socialist who did not believe that #capitalism was the answer to the human community and that indeed it was the destruction of the human spirit. And he would not fight its wars. And at that time, the socialists and the lefties, as they were called, Bolsheviks and everything else, were against the war."

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #FridayNightIsMusicNight Vernon Duke, Yip Harburg & Tony Bennett: 🎵 April in Paris #BBCRadio3 #VernonDuke #YipHarburg #TonyBennett
"It's Only a Paper Moon" is a #popularSong published in 1933 with music by #HaroldArlen and lyrics by #YipHarburg and #BillyRose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIQFJGru-xI
Nat King Cole - It's Only a Paper Moon

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Great group of players & singers at the #DirtyWorks Open #Jazz #Jam @ #Waystone #SF on #MondayNight!!

We jam out at Waystone every #Monday from 6-9pm with 10 to 20 players layin' down fat #Swing & boppin' grooves. Join us next week and let us know what songs you want to hear in the comments.

Tunes we played...
C Jam Blues - #DukeEllington
Beatrice - #SamRivers
On The Sunny Side Of The Street - #JimmyMcHugh
Willow Weep For Me - #AnnRonell
On Green Dolphin Street - #BronisławKaper lyrics: #NedWashington
Lady Bird - #TaddDameron
Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words) [Latin] - #BartHoward
Solar - #ChuckWayne ==> #MilesDavis
Lester Leaps In - #CountBasie
Lullaby Of Birdland - #GeorgeShearing lyrics: #GeorgeDavidWeiss
But Not For Me - #GeorgeGershwin & lyrics: #IraGershwin
A Night in Tunisia - #DizzyGellespie
April In Paris - #VernonDuke lyrics: #YipHarburg
Straight No Chaser - #TheloniousMonk
'S Wonderful - #GeorgeGershwin lyrics: #IraGershwin
No Body Knows You When You're Down and Out - #JimmieCox
Autumn In New York - #VernonDuke
Body & Soul [Latin] - #JohnnyGreen lyrics: #EdwardHeyma
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy - #JoeZawinul

Here's another. Atheist poetry by Yip Harburg
ATHEIST
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree;

And only God who makes the tree
Also makes the fools like me.

But only fools like me, you see,
Can make a God, who makes a tree.
#somewhere #over the #rainbow #guy #YipHarburg #atheist #rhymes #lyricist #librettist #poems #god #tree #fools #like #me
https://yipharburg.com/resources/poems/

Poems | yipharburg.com

Yip Harburg, famous atheist, did not know! Here's a link to some #poems. They include:
MIRACLE
We’re wise to prestidigitators,
We’re hip to all theatrics,
We know how rabbits turn to doves
In all the magic hat tricks,
But how did Mary’s manger
Turn into the posh St. Patrick’s?

MUTUAL ADMIRATION
“Speaking of the Common Man,” said Lincoln,
“God must love him.”
And the Common Man, he must love God–
He made so many of Him.
#YipHarburg #lyricist #librettist #atheist #rhymes
https://yipharburg.com/resources/poems/

Poems | yipharburg.com

The Stars of Stage and Screen…Song #52/250: Over the Rainbow by Judy Garland from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for the Film The Wizard of Oz

It was over eighty years ago that The Wizard of Oz had its premiere. It was being filmed at the same time as other classic movies such as Gone With the Wind, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and many m…

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A Tribute to Blacklisted Lyricist Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz

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