CultureBuzz Converses with "Songs For The People" - A musical gift to President Obama & his People!
Channel: CultureBuzzIsrael
Date: 2013-01-14

What a project!

Two of Israel's best singers, along with this great Choir http://www.efronichoir.org/?categoryId=25718 , join a talented musician & an entrepreneur in order to send a gift of Music to President Obama's Inauguration Ceremony, coming-up (21 January 2013).

We've met Ruti Navon, Adi Cohen & Gilad Hesseg, at http://www.bardostudios.co.il/contact , completing their work on the clip to be sent to the White House ASAP.

And the Lyrics, chosen by Gilad, are by the 19th Century Afro-Americam Poet, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, couldn't be any better! 

As for the Music? A teaser is coming-up soon! Till then, here is the Poem:

Songs for the People / Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
 
Let me make the songs for the people,
Songs for the old and young;
Let me make the songs for the people,
Songs to stir like a battle-cry
Wherever they are sung.
 
Not for the clashing of sabres,
For carnage nor for strife; ho no
But songs to thrill the hearts of men
With more abundant life.
 
Let me make the songs for the weary,
Amid life's fever and fret,
Let me make the songs for the weary,
Till hearts shall relax their tension,
And careworn brows forget.
 
Let me sing for little children,
Before their footsteps stray,
Sweet anthems of love and duty,
To float o'er life's highway.
 
I would sing for the poor and aged,
When shadows dim their sight;
Of the bright and restful mansions,
Where there shall be no night.
 
Let me make the songs for the people,
Our world needs music, pure and strong,
Let me make the songs for the people,
To hush the jangle and discords
Of sorrow, pain, and wrong.
 
Music to soothe all its sorrow,
Till war and crime shall cease;
And the hearts of men grown tender
Girdle the world with peace.