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UPDATE: Mamoru Samuragochi's Ghostwriter, Takashi Niigaki, Contends "I Saw No Signs That He Could Not Hear"
LINKS: V. Vale's 'Melancholic Hope,' Commissioned by the Bar, Greatest Jazz Films Ever, When Philip Glass Met Ravi Shankar, 'At the Ballet' Movie
Once again, a mere 99 cents gets you the latest piano piece, 'Melancholic Hope,' from the founder of RE/Search Publications. Composed for a friend whose mother had just passed away, these seven minutes from V. Vale are what I'd want to hear should heaven ever allow me entry. QUIZ: How Well Do You Know Your Black Classical Music History?
As Classicalite's favorite classical music radio station reminded us, the historian Carter G. Woodson chose the second week of February in 1926 to be deemed "Negro History Week" because the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln (Feb. 12) and Frederick Douglass (Feb. 14) occurred in that same week.