By Howie Silver Try to remember the kind of SeptemberWhen life was slow and oh, so mellow.Try to remember the kind of SeptemberWhen grass was green and grain was yellow. So begins the wonderful song “Try to Remember,” from the musical The Fantasticks, which premiered in 1960 and had over 21,000 off-Broadway performances. It was […]
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By Howie Silver Done laid around, done played around,This old town too long.Summer’s almost gone, winter’s coming onAnd I feel like I gotta travel on. So begins an old American folksong “Gotta Travel On.” It reflects a common theme of the transition from the lazy, hazy days to summer to the brisk, lively days of
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By Howie Silver Summertime, and the livin’ is easy,Fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high. So begins the classic Gershwin Brothers ballad/lullaby “Summertime” from Porgy and Bess. While Washington state farmers grow over 300 different crops, apparently cotton is not one of them. However, the Chinook salmon and rainbow trout are jumping in the
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By Howie Silver Summertime, and the livin’ is easy,Fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high. So begins the classic Gershwin Brothers ballad/lullaby “Summertime” from Porgy and Bess. While Washington state farmers grow over 300 different crops, apparently cotton is not one of them. However, the Chinook salmon and rainbow trout are jumping in the
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