Music

I always write and grade papers with music in the background.

Current Selections:

• Jimmy Greene, “Beautiful Life” (Jimmy Greene Music Works)
  Sample “Beautiful Life”
  “Beautiful Life” was composed and recorded by Jimmy Greene as a memorial for his daughter Ana, who was 6 years old when she and 19 other first graders were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The words “remember me” are repeated twenty times, once for each child who lost a life. The sample above includes selections from “Maybe” and “Little Voices.”
  Produced by Jimmy Greene Music Works: Jimmy Greene, saxophonist, with Anika Noni Rose, Tony Award Winner.
• Paul Robeson, A Lonesome Road (Academy Sound and Vision) and Songs of Free Men (Sony)
  Sample “Ezekiel Saw the Wheel”
  Sample “Balm in Gilead”
• Henry Purcell, Funeral Sentences (Harmonia Mundi)
• Lil Nas X, Old Town Road (original and with Billy Ray Cyrus Remix.
  This country-rap, hip-hop song with country-subject-matter song was only reluctantly played on country radio and banned from Billboard’s country singles chart. It became the #1 song in the nation and is interesting because it is a cross cultural genre mix and exposed prejudices and an identity crisis in the country music establishment.
• Denyce Graves, Angels Watching Over Me (Academy Sound and Vision)
• Eric Clapton, “San Francisco Bay Blues”
  Sample “San Francisco Bay Blues”
• Joseph Hayden, Nelson Mass (English Concert Choir)
• Leonard Bernstein, Reaching for the Note (DG Deutsche Grammophon)
  Sample “Ode to Joy”
• Various Artists, Legendary Autographs (Guthy.Renker Music)
  Sample “If I Loved You”
  Sample “What a Wonderful World”
• The Irish Tenors, Ellis Island (Music Matters)
  Sample “Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears”
• Bruce Springsteen, Working on a Dream (Columbia Records)
  Sample “Kingdom of Days”