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Headin' for Better Times
Songs that inspire us to move forward
Get on the train headin' for better times as the Occasional Chorus steams into Bisbee for two concerts, Saturday, March 20 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, March 21 at 3:00 pm. Both concerts will be held at St. John's Episcopal Church Social Hall located at 19 Sowles Avenue in Old Bisbee.
The music selected for the concert is varied reflecting different responses to difficult times. The women will be featured singing two "Songs of Survival"--pieces of music that came into being in a prison camp on Sumatra. Two of the interred women worked transcribing various classical pieces based on what they could remember of the original music. They were written on odd bits of paper, mostly in pencil, and written as small as possible to save paper. The idea was to bring singers together - Dutch, British, Australian - about thirty in all, to make music to uplift and bring some beauty and sanity to their existence.
A number of Depression Era songs such as "Bye, Bye Blues", "Headin' for Better Times" and "Brother Can You Spare a Dime" will be featured along with more current pieces. "The Preacher and the Slave" was written by Joe Hill at a time when the Industrial Workers of the World-the Wobblies-concentrated much of its labor trying to organize migrant workers in lumber and construction camps while trying to negate the interference of the Salvation Army. Although written in 1911, it is still relevant today.
"Across the Bridge of Hope" is a song based on a poem written by a 12-year-old Shaun McLaughlin along with four other boys. In August 1998, a bomb exploded in a shopping area in Omagh, Northern Ireland, killing 29 people and injuring 200 more. Shaun was one of those who perished in the explosion. Set to music following the incident, it is part of a charity album of the same name, which benefits the families of the city of Omagh and is dedicated to "Choral Singing for Peace and Justice". In a Bisbee exclusive, the Austin Lounge Lizards' "Pirates of the Health Care-ibean" will have its inaugural presentation as a choral number. As the title would indicate, the song takes on the health insurance "pirates" and should strike a chord with the audience.
Soloists and a trio will be interspersed with chorus numbers while Nancy Weaver on guitar and Jerry Stafford on cornet will provide additional accompaniment for this, the second concert of the Occasional Chorus. Admission to the concert is by donation.
Get on the train headin' for better times as the Occasional Chorus steams into Bisbee for two concerts, Saturday, March 20 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, March 21 at 3:00 pm. Both concerts will be held at St. John's Episcopal Church Social Hall located at 19 Sowles Avenue in Old Bisbee.
The music selected for the concert is varied reflecting different responses to difficult times. The women will be featured singing two "Songs of Survival"--pieces of music that came into being in a prison camp on Sumatra. Two of the interred women worked transcribing various classical pieces based on what they could remember of the original music. They were written on odd bits of paper, mostly in pencil, and written as small as possible to save paper. The idea was to bring singers together - Dutch, British, Australian - about thirty in all, to make music to uplift and bring some beauty and sanity to their existence.
A number of Depression Era songs such as "Bye, Bye Blues", "Headin' for Better Times" and "Brother Can You Spare a Dime" will be featured along with more current pieces. "The Preacher and the Slave" was written by Joe Hill at a time when the Industrial Workers of the World-the Wobblies-concentrated much of its labor trying to organize migrant workers in lumber and construction camps while trying to negate the interference of the Salvation Army. Although written in 1911, it is still relevant today.
"Across the Bridge of Hope" is a song based on a poem written by a 12-year-old Shaun McLaughlin along with four other boys. In August 1998, a bomb exploded in a shopping area in Omagh, Northern Ireland, killing 29 people and injuring 200 more. Shaun was one of those who perished in the explosion. Set to music following the incident, it is part of a charity album of the same name, which benefits the families of the city of Omagh and is dedicated to "Choral Singing for Peace and Justice". In a Bisbee exclusive, the Austin Lounge Lizards' "Pirates of the Health Care-ibean" will have its inaugural presentation as a choral number. As the title would indicate, the song takes on the health insurance "pirates" and should strike a chord with the audience.
Soloists and a trio will be interspersed with chorus numbers while Nancy Weaver on guitar and Jerry Stafford on cornet will provide additional accompaniment for this, the second concert of the Occasional Chorus. Admission to the concert is by donation.
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