Next year is the 50th Anniversary of the historic 1964 Civil Rights Act that brought Civil Equality to African Americans. In his Huffington Post Article, Human Rights Activist Todd Fernandez introduces The Pledge for Full LGBT Equality by 2014. Here is what it says when you click the link to Take the Pledge:
"With this Pledge, we call upon our friends, our neighbors, and our elected officials to lead the way toward full equality for LGBT Americans. Each week, each month, and each year that we wait means kids being bullied in their schools, workers being fired for who they are, couples being separated by unfair immigration laws, and families being labeled as “less than” their neighbors. To change this we must bring the entire issue of our inequality and the psychological harm we endure to an inescapable awareness. Simply put, we need to call the question and this Pledge is designed to do exactly that. History will judge not simply whether we make all Americans equal under the law, but also the expediency of doing so. We must live up to that challenge, and do so without delay. Please TAKE THE PLEDGE and then put the Pledge to work in your community, political party, or organization. The time for equality has come, and with a collective voice and focused effort, we can usher in its arrival together."
Take The Pledge and Share Everywhere and with Everyone, Please. We can do this together and make history while doing so.
Your Hump Day play list comes from the 1999 CD of music by Jean-Baptiste Lully, 'L'Orchestre du Roi Soleil. Symphonies, Ouvertures & Airs à jouer' (Music for the Sun King) recorded by Le Concert Des Nations directed by Jordi Savall; Manfredo Kraemer, premier violin, with authentic period instruments. The CD's detailed description from Elusive Disc reads:
"With this Pledge, we call upon our friends, our neighbors, and our elected officials to lead the way toward full equality for LGBT Americans. Each week, each month, and each year that we wait means kids being bullied in their schools, workers being fired for who they are, couples being separated by unfair immigration laws, and families being labeled as “less than” their neighbors. To change this we must bring the entire issue of our inequality and the psychological harm we endure to an inescapable awareness. Simply put, we need to call the question and this Pledge is designed to do exactly that. History will judge not simply whether we make all Americans equal under the law, but also the expediency of doing so. We must live up to that challenge, and do so without delay. Please TAKE THE PLEDGE and then put the Pledge to work in your community, political party, or organization. The time for equality has come, and with a collective voice and focused effort, we can usher in its arrival together."
Take The Pledge and Share Everywhere and with Everyone, Please. We can do this together and make history while doing so.
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"What is it that makes French baroque music so unmistakable? You have only to listen to a minute or two of this disc to recognize its nationality, even if guessing the composer is more difficult. Perhaps it's the instrumental color, as many-hued as the finest embroidered cloth; perhaps it's the juxtaposition of the most stately overtures--full of brass flourishes and dignified pomp--with the liveliest dance movements. Indeed, so French is this music in style that it's of little consequence that Lully was actually Italian-born (though French-trained).
These three suites were all composed for the court of Louis XIV, a great patron of the arts and an enthusiastic dancer. Le divertissement royal is as gilded and magnificently over-the-top as the Versailles festivities it was designed to celebrate, while Le bourgeois gentilhomme was Lully's most spectacular collaboration with Molière in a form that combined music and drama.
The suite from the opera Alceste makes a fittingly rich finale, ranging wide from the dramatic possibilities of "Echos" to the overcast "La pompe funèbre." The playing by Jordi Savall and his band is terrific: vivid, perfectly drilled, and endlessly responsive to the theatrical possibilities of this effervescent music--brought to the fore by the excellent recording. "
These three suites were all composed for the court of Louis XIV, a great patron of the arts and an enthusiastic dancer. Le divertissement royal is as gilded and magnificently over-the-top as the Versailles festivities it was designed to celebrate, while Le bourgeois gentilhomme was Lully's most spectacular collaboration with Molière in a form that combined music and drama.
The suite from the opera Alceste makes a fittingly rich finale, ranging wide from the dramatic possibilities of "Echos" to the overcast "La pompe funèbre." The playing by Jordi Savall and his band is terrific: vivid, perfectly drilled, and endlessly responsive to the theatrical possibilities of this effervescent music--brought to the fore by the excellent recording. "
Finally for this second day of the new year, which also happens to be Hump Day, comes this collection extraordinarily handsome Hump Day Hunks to inspire and entice you as you scroll down the page. Thank you for spending a little time with me today. Until next time as always, Enjoy!
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