Peace Out!
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October 13, 2004
St. Louis theatre producer and playwright Joan Lipkin is my special guest for a program of songs about war and peace in celebration of Peace Out! An Artistic Resistance to War, a festival of anti-war performances based on texts by the group Poets Against the War, among other things.
PLAYLIST
| Selection |
Source |
Performer(s) |
Comments |
| Mission Accomplished |
GOP
Party Monsters (2004) |
Wayne Lammers and Pete Levin |
A stirring paean to the end of major combat operations (and the beginning of the sand trap). |
| There's Something About a War |
A Stephen Sondheim Evening
(OC 1983) |
Cris Groenendaal, Bob Gunton, George Hearn, Steven Jacob |
Miles Gloriosus arrives with his troops. The song was written for and then cut from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. This live recording was made at a special one-night-only Sondheim tribute concert |
| I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier |
Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition (1977) |
Morton
Harvey, studio orchestra |
Recorded in the fall of 1916, this is a reminder that the anti-war movement in this country didn't just pop into existence in the 1960s. Harvey was a popular singer and this number was a hit until America entered the war in April of 1917, at which point RCA Victor - in an act of corporate cowardice that has contemporary resonance - withdrew it from circulation. Harvey's recording career ended that same year but he continued as a vaudeville headliner and eventually retired to manage a radio station in Oklahoma. |
| Main Theme |
World War I (OS 1965) |
Orchestra conducted by Morton
Gould |
Gould provided the score for this CBS documentary series, which aired in 1964 and 1965. The main theme is mournful and martial in equal parts, as befits its topic. |
| Imagine |
Imagine |
John Lennon |
Joan brought this one in and it seemed appropriate. |
| This Bus Won't Go to War |
Fighting Clowns (1980) |
The Firesign Theatre |
Another live recording, this time from a mostly anti-war cabaret act presented at Hollywood's Roxy Theatre. |
Acronyms and other mysteries defined:
OC: Unless otherwise indicated,
the Original Cast recording of a Broadway show,
along with the date.
OS: Unless otherwise indicated, the Original
Soundtrack recording of a film,
TV show, etc.
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