DYLAN WHITE HOUSE UPDATE
John Baldwin's Desolation Row e-newsletter is among the many sources reporting further details. These include:
The concert (held in the East Room) will also feature opening remarks by President Obama and readings from Civil Rights speeches and writings. The concert will be streamed live at www.whitehouse.gov starting at 5.15 pm Eastern Standard Time - 10.15pm in the UK (11.15pm in France) - and then televised on February 11 at 8pm ET on public broadcasting stations across the US. Their National Public Radio will also produce a one-hour concert special edited down from this event for broadcast on NPR stations throughout February, beginning February 12. This will be available on www.npr.org/music.
But before all that, Michelle Obama will host Music that Inspired the Movement, a workshop some of the concert performers will lead for 120 high school students from across the country on February 10 from 1-2pm. ET. The intention is to stress the continuing relevance of music from the Civil Rights Movement to today's generation as well as its original impact in the 1960s. This too will be streamed live on www.whitehouse.gov.
The First Lady launched this White House Music Series last year with a Jazz Studio, and since then has hosted a Fiesta Latina and celebrations of Classical and of Country music.
It says something about American political life that they had to celebrate all those genres before daring to go for this one.
The concert (held in the East Room) will also feature opening remarks by President Obama and readings from Civil Rights speeches and writings. The concert will be streamed live at www.whitehouse.gov starting at 5.15 pm Eastern Standard Time - 10.15pm in the UK (11.15pm in France) - and then televised on February 11 at 8pm ET on public broadcasting stations across the US. Their National Public Radio will also produce a one-hour concert special edited down from this event for broadcast on NPR stations throughout February, beginning February 12. This will be available on www.npr.org/music.
But before all that, Michelle Obama will host Music that Inspired the Movement, a workshop some of the concert performers will lead for 120 high school students from across the country on February 10 from 1-2pm. ET. The intention is to stress the continuing relevance of music from the Civil Rights Movement to today's generation as well as its original impact in the 1960s. This too will be streamed live on www.whitehouse.gov.
The First Lady launched this White House Music Series last year with a Jazz Studio, and since then has hosted a Fiesta Latina and celebrations of Classical and of Country music.
It says something about American political life that they had to celebrate all those genres before daring to go for this one.
posted by Michael Gray | 3:47 pm
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the white house photo of Bob and Barrack could say
''Don't get up, Im only passin' through''
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