Atomic Surfonic — “Twilight Ride”
Track: “Twight Ride”
Single: This is a one-sided single.
Artist: Atomic Surfonic
Artist Location: Independence, Missouri, USA
Info: “Catchy surf rock”
Atomic Surfonic: “Maverick”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djYVVRum1pA
Aomtic Surfonic: “New Reverend Jetstream RB Guitar (a little fun)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5w68YyuZiE
Atomic Surfonic: “Inside the idea factory”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH5nDo_0ujg
Price: $1 (USD) for one-sided single
Genre: Surf Instrumental. Rock Instrumental.
Links:
https://atomicsurfonic.bandcamp.com/track/twilight-ride
https://atomicsurfonic.bandcamp.com
https://www.youtube.com/@atomicsurfonic5875
WORDPRESS EMBED CODE:
EDGAR WHAN (Nov. 18, 1920 – April 13, 2013)
Edgar Whan: “Growing Up is a Waste of Time, So Relax and Enjoy the Next Four or Five Years of Your Life: Advice for First-Year Students”
Some college friends of mine have asked me to write a few words about the university for those of you just entering this year. It is a difficult thing to write. I know you don’t want or need me to tell you about all the pitfalls and dangers that are sprinkled throughout the world of the university, and it wouldn’t do any good if I did. Besides, in the more than 40 years I have spent in universities, I myself have eagerly embraced almost every stupidity, sentimentality, self-indulgence, and vanity available to those in the university. With a little luck, you’ll manage to survive.
Your parents have already warned you about fast men and loose women and have endlessly explained to you how much this educational enterprise will cost them. Your uncles have told you that this is the best time of your life. Your brother wants your bedroom, and your sister wants some privacy. Your steady expects you to write every day. Everyone wants in.
But what can I tell you? I guess I should talk of some of the ways that students make their university experience be less than the passionate love affair with learning that it ought to be and maybe I should suggest some things you can do to make it really worthwhile. When you graduate you will, after all, be four years closer to being dead than when you started, so don’t waste all this time.
No matter what your practice may be, you know well enough what the bad attitudes about school are, but one of the most widespread and subtle of these unhealthy attitudes you may believe to be the only attitude available. I speak of the belief that a school is really just a different kind of a factory. Indeed, educational leaders talk about productivity, high standards, quality control, image making, and marketing the product (you). This language is not as sinister as it seems; it is simply the only way that large institutions know how to talk. But if you buy into this industrial/commercial scheme uncritically, you will demean yourself.
If, following this model, you allow yourself to think that you are simply working for a professor who pays you with grades, all the resentment and boredom that afflicted you working in the Burger King will begin to clog your attitude. But as a free student you should see that the world is upside down—the professors (whether they recognize it or not) work for you, not you for them. In the same way, the free faculty know that the administration works for them, not they for the administration. It is the administration’s job to keep the records and payroll and see that the blackboards are erased; similarly, the professor is responsible to you, not for you.
It is true that the prevailing view of the school as a factory has a certain utility for those of you who choose to follow it. It surely will train you to be what most employers want you to be; four years of grudging, automatic obedience to those hovering over you with red pencils will have its sobering influence. Being a submissive student will attract job offers to you because you will be four years older than when you began school, and you will have satisfied some forty different authority figures in a proscribed pattern of study. If what you did satisfactorily for those professors was dull and meaningless to you, so much better are you prepared for, as we say, the great world of work.
No matter how hard you try to be a more serious student, however, there will be times when you will find it useful to lean into the system and rock along with it, and that’s all right as long as you know what you are doing and as long as you keep alert and keep watching for those moments when some ideal will really engage your mind and spirit. You should always have in your mind some deep concerns or profound questions around which you can shape or organize the rush of facts or opinions which threaten to engulf you as you move from class to class and from experience to experience. Indeed, illuminating your work by such concerns will bring a wholeness and unity to you.
Each of you have your own questions, even though you may not know you have them. The following examples of unifying questions may help you recognize your own:
- How can a man and a woman manage the politics of living together in the tension of conflicting interests?
- What does it mean to be dead?
- How can we deal with other races, classes, and nations without condescension, bullying, or contempt?
- Are our religions just wishful dreams or reflections of another plane of reality?
- What should be our relationship to the planet on which we ride?
So go to class. Learn your irregular verbs, equations, formulas, and management techniques. Develop your esthetic sense, expand your knowledge of society. Accumulate your credits. Pay your fees. Keep your eyes on the prize.
Don’t forget that what you care about is who you are. If all you care about is grades now and money later, who are you and what will you be?
—The late Edgar Whan taught English and was one of Ohio University’s best teachers ever.
Edgar Whan Obituary (Athens Messenger)
CAITLIN KRAUS
Caitlin Kraus (she/her), LPCC, MT-BC
Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor
Music Therapist – Board Certified
Ohio University Counseling & Psych Services
Follow OU Counseling & Psych Services on Twitter at @OHIO_Counseling
Check out: Togetherall & WellTrack
CAITLIN KRAUS ON FACEBOOK
https://www.facebook.com/caitlinkrausmusic
CAITLIN KRAUS MUSIC
CAITLIN KRAUS ON INSTAGRAM
https://www.instagram.com/caitlinkrausmusic/
CAITLIN KRAUS ON BANDCAMP
https://caitlinkrausmusic.bandcamp.com
CAITLIN KRAUS: GONE BEYOND album
https://caitlinkrausmusic.bandcamp.com/album/gone-beyond
CAITLIN KRAUS: WHAT RISES album
https://caitlinkrausmusic.bandcamp.com/album/what-rises
CAITLIN KRAUS: “Waiting for the World” / “Dead Man” EP
https://caitlinkrausmusic.bandcamp.com/album/dead-man-waiting-for-the-world
Caitlin Kraus: “Gone Beyond” (Caitlin Kraus performs “Gone Beyond” Aug. 17, 2023, at the Athens (OH) Community Center.) — From the album GONE BEYOND.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4zFYr55b5E
Caitlin Kraus: “Make It Clear” (Caitlin Kraus performs “Make It Clear” Aug. 17, 2023, at the Athens (OH) Community Center.) — From the album GONE BEYOND.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1isFj2Oxiu4
Caitlin Kraus: “Strange Other” (Caitlin Kraus performs “Strange Other” Aug. 17, 2023, at the Athens (OH) Community Center.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Wc3pkXIiA
Caitlin Kraus at the 2020 Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZJFIal2SyU
Caitlin Kraus: “Follow Me” — From the album WHAT RISES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdywiZXm2nc
It is a very special honor to have completed this music video for “Follow Me,” which was directed by the wonderful Adam Remnant who also recorded the song itself back in 2016. We collaborated on the concepts in the video and spent a chilly, beautiful spring day filming it with his talented students (listed below) at the Nelsonville, OH brick kilns, Hocking River, and surrounding neighborhood. For me, the lyrics and music of this song portray real imagery and memories that have grown dream-like with the passing of time, yet still remain formative and foundational. At its core, it is about transformation and being/becoming, but I hope the ambiguity and symbolism of the song and video also lead to your own interpretation and that you can find something resonant within it. Lyrics and digital/CD format available at caitlinkrausmusic.bandcamp.com. Music website at caitlinkrausmusic.com.
A huge and sincere thank you to Adam Remnant for his direction of the video and to the Hocking College students listed in the following credits: AC – Alex Rhinehart & Najayah Shepard; Grips – Alex Rhinehart, Alexis Pariseau, Najayah Shepard, Nate Ruhl, & Richard Valentine; On-set Photographer – Ivan Reardon
“Follow Me” is featured on the full-length 2020 release WHAT RISES and includes myself on vocals/guitar, Adam Remnant on bass/drums/keyboard, and Hannah Simonetti on violin. The song was recorded and mixed by Adam in Athens, OH while the full album was produced, mixed, and mastered by Bernie Nau at Peachfork Studios in Pomeroy, OH (https://peachforkstudios.com/).
Caitlin Kraus: “This Body”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW9Kp-P3oio
Notes for “This Body”:
A song for the rights of all: the right to be safe in our bodies, the right to make decisions for our bodies, and the right to be who we are in our bodies. (Lyrics below.) I wrote this song […] out of the need to process my anger at women’s rights being taken away and for what this means for other rights down the line. A never-ending issue it seems, but one we can’t stop fighting for. A big thank you to Tom Riggs for taking footage of my first performance of this song with Mark Hellenberg on drums at The Union in Athens, OH.
Lyrics for “This Body”:
This body is temporary, but while it’s here / It’s not yours to hold captive in fear / This body is mine, it was never yours / So fuck your laws and gods and guns / I get to say what I put inside / I GET TO CHOOSE, IT IS MY RIGHT / This body is sacred, but only safe / When I’m in charge, you have no claim / This body is proud and wears the crown / Makes the decisions and won’t back down / I get to say what I put inside / I GET TO CHOOSE, IT IS MY RIGHT / And don’t tell me who I can love or about my identity / Don’t use your privilege to subject your patriarchy / I get to say what I put inside / I GET TO CHOOSE, IT IS MY RIGHT
Caitlin Kraus: “What Rises” — From the album WHAT RISES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoD-LgA6qUg
Caitlin Kraus: “Pink Cloud”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC8sNynVLUo
Caitlyn Kraus: Boogie on the Bricks (10 August 2019) — Athens, Ohio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtxfc4dMprM
Caitlin Kraus: Interview and “Waiting for the World”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPoahBWpuys
Caitlin Kraus: “Follow Me”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9yePPAwOa8
Caitlin Kraus Torres: “Dead Man” — From the album WHAT RISES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brtzE73ZGsg
Caitlin Kraus: Full Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpk-Wyr1aTw
Caitlin Kraus: “On the Way Down” — From the album WHAT RISES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNioAruv6SA
Caitlin Kraus: “Synchronicity” — From the album WHAT RISES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmdNN1MD-Og
Caitlin Kraus: “All Along”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfrySyGEnR0
Caitlin Kraus Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4_ulcpWBI0
Caitlyn Kraus: “Dead Man” on SA Live (KSAT-TV) — From the album WHAT RISES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mCcPpJymcg
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTQruwqEa_LjrqQBZy2lUww
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8cBT8QZwxhfta7xZBtPJOUspm3GMO7NA
Caitlin Kraus: Ohio University Adjunct Professor of Music Therapy
https://www.ohio.edu/fine-arts/music/ck294906
Caitlin Kraus: Live From Home (Includes at end Bruce Dalzell’s “You Always Make Me Smile”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7kcljjvX-s
Caitlin Kraus with Mark Hellenberg: “Dead Man” — From the album WHAT RISES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y16d-52JL-I
Caitlin Kraus with Mark Hellenberg: “Locket” — From the album WHAT RISES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj84dLCtzwc
Caitlin Kraus with Mark Hellenberg: “On My Knees”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg97-pfc5qs
Caitlin Kraus with Mark Hellenberg: “Follow Me” — From the album WHAT RISES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFIXQEYInRg
Caitlin Kraus: “Waiting for the World” / “Dead Man”
Caitlin Kraus Torres: “Fill Your Heart” (David Bowie Cover)
Caitlin Kraus: “Waiting for the World” — From the album WHAT RISES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eBknAqMHlQ
Caitlin Kraus: “Full Bloom” — From the album WHAT RISES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n37Io7QofGQ
Caitlin Kraus: “Make Love Stay” — From the album WHAT RISES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOFyvkjHvrk
Caitlin Kraus: “By Dark” — From the album WHAT RISES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40JuJpCqmiY
Caitlin Kraus: “Down to You” — From the album WHAT RISES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0ykF7XPGYk
Interview & Article for WOUB Public Media (8/6/2020): Interview about upcoming performance for the Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival, history as a songwriter and musician, and experiences as a performer during the pandemic.
https://woub.org/2020/08/06/virtual-nelsonville-music-festival-interviews-caitlin-kraus/
Article for WOUB Public Media (10/12/2017): Article about Caitlin’s path as both a songwriter and musician as well as a music therapist.
https://woub.org/2017/10/12/caitlin-kraus-a-twofold-journey/
OVRLD Austin Music First (6/13/2016): “On her new single ‘Waiting for the World,’ Caitlin Kraus’ sweetly shimmering voice rises out of an oceanic musical backing, giving the track a melancholic feel, like a reinterpretation of The Awakening’s bitter conclusion. Kraus’ voice is powerful but not in a bombastic sense, it’s instead devastating in its emotional richness. The well-arranged strings that emerge after the beginning of the song aid in this, making ‘Waiting for the World’ an excellent bit of chamber pop that stands out for the frequently unimaginatively produced singer songwriter tracks Austin is oversaturated with.”
https://ovrld.com/latest-toughs/kodachrome-borzoi-kydd/
Caitlin Kraus: “Golden and Blue”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfbKehHLggk
Caitlin Kraus: “Enough”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkgVzxvaJZs
Caitlin Kraus at the Union
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNzx2J44W4k
Suggested Listening ’23: Caitlin Kraus Suggests Good Music to Listen To
Caitlin Kraus is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and Board-Certified Music Therapist providing services to students at Ohio University in Athens, OH. When she is not counseling, Caitlin is an active musician and songwriter, performing her music both solo and with a band under her name. She has released two full-length albums from Peachfork Studios: “Gone Beyond” (2023) and “What Rises” (2020). She also sings and plays in the band Drift Mouth. She is the proud companion of two wonderful dogs.
Some of the music choices presented here were not actually released in 2023 as I am usually a time traveler when it comes to music. While it was hard to choose only 10 albums/artists and songs, this is some of the music that I happened to listen to often in 2023 and which personally resonated the most. It is presented in no particular order. I hope you can enjoy it along with me!
Jake Xerxes Fussell – Good & Green Again (2022)
The Beths – Expert in a Dying Field (2022)
Nina Simone – You’ve Got to Learn (Recorded Live at the 1966 Newport Jazz Festival; Released in 2023)
Marina Allen – Candlepower (2021)
Drugdealer – Raw Honey (2019)
The Roches – The Roches (1979)
Labi Siffre – Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying (1971)
S.G. Goodman – Teeth Marks (2022)
Esther Rose – Safe To Run (2023)
The GTOs – Permanent Damage (1969)
See below link for Caitlin Kraus’ commentary:
https://woub.org/2023/12/11/suggested-listening-23-caitlin-kraus/
TOM RIGGS: Music to Consider (YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/@riggsviews
Tom Riggs is famous for recording local and regional (and national and international) music and posting the videos on YouTube.
MARK HELLENBERG
Mark Hellenberg is the undisputed KING of groove and percussion in the world of contra dancing. He is also a well-known public radio host in Athens, OH, as well as an expert on World War 1 and the history of beer, and many other things.
SONGS and ALBUMS:
Below: From the album RUSTY SMITH AND FRIENDS by RUSTY SMITH
I Get the Blues When It Rains (feat. Jorma Kaukonen, Zeke Hutchison, Mark Hellenberg & Terry Douds)
Below: From the album SONGS OF LOVE AND DEBACLE by ALBERT ROUZIE
Mona Lisa (Rock My Soul) [feat. Jim Smailes, John Borchard, Dave Borowski & Mark Hellenberg]
The Ghost Horse (feat. Dave Borowski & Mark Hellenberg)
Slowest Man in the World (feat. John Borchard & Mark Hellenberg)
Below: From the album DANCE-A-RAMA by Samuel Bartlett
Beer-30 (feat. Mark Hellenberg, Rodney Miller, Ben Cooper & Eden MacAdam-Somer)
Supertrad (feat. Mark Hellenberg, Ben Cooper & Eden MacAdam-Somer)
Mathias’s Waltz (feat. Mark Hellenberg, Ben Cooper, Kristi Guillory & Anya Burgess)
The Nomad (feat. Mark Hellenberg, Ben Cooper, Rodney Miller & Christopher Layer)
Ann Carter’s Tooth (feat. Mark Hellenberg, Ben Cooper & Eden MacAdam-Somer)
Captain McLane (feat. Mark Hellenberg, Ben Cooper & Rodney Miller)
Portlandia Waltz (feat. Mark Hellenberg, Ben Cooper & Rodney Miller)
Dr. Wilson (feat. Mark Hellenberg, Ben Cooper & Rodney Miller)
Axelrod (feat. Mark Hellenberg, Ben Cooper & Eden MacAdam-Somer)
The Shocking Bluesteins (feat. Mark Hellenberg, Ben Cooper, David Greely & Eden MacAdam-Somer)
Bad Max (feat. Mark Hellenberg, Ben Cooper, Eden MacAdam-Somer & Max Newman)
DANCE-A-RAMA
RUSTY SMITH AND FRIENDS
Mark Hellenberg also plays drums on Caitlin Kraus’ album WHAT RISES
CONCERT
Caitlin Kraus at the 2020 Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival (with Mark Hellenberg on drums)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZJFIal2SyU
FANS OF MARK HELLENBERG
https://www.facebook.com/groups/191917007525334/
YOUTUBE
Caitlin Kraus: “This Body”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW9Kp-P3oio
Notes for “This Body”:
A song for the rights of all: the right to be safe in our bodies, the right to make decisions for our bodies, and the right to be who we are in our bodies. (Lyrics below.) I wrote this song […] out of the need to process my anger at women’s rights being taken away and for what this means for other rights down the line. A never-ending issue it seems, but one we can’t stop fighting for. A big thank you to Tom Riggs for taking footage of my first performance of this song with Mark Hellenberg on drums at The Union in Athens, OH.
Caitlin Kraus with Mark Hellenberg: “Dead Man”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y16d-52JL-I
Caitlin Kraus with Mark Hellenberg: “Locket”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj84dLCtzwc
Caitlin Kraus with Mark Hellenberg: “On My Knees”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg97-pfc5qs
Caitlin Kraus with Mark Hellenberg: “Follow Me”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFIXQEYInRg
Mark Hellenberg on Nelsonville Music Festival 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhiIHmlokqM
Mark Hellenberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkWF5sSTgv0
Elixir Contra Carnivale 2012 + Mark Hellenberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ9RI1PMgZg
Appalachian String Band: “Dance All Night With a Beer Bottle in Your Hand”
Bass: Ralph Gordon / Banjo Uke: Mark Hellenberg / Banjo: Adam Hurt / Guitar: Danny Knicely / Fiddle: Chance McCoy / Vocals: Aimee Curl, Chance McCoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHIic_z5ZtI
Catherine MacLellan at 2013 Nelsonville Music Festival
On this episode of “Crossing Boundaries Extra,” WOUB’s Mark Hellenberg talks with Canadian singer-songwriter Catherine MacLellan and guitarist Chris Gauthier at the 2013 Nelsonville Music Festival.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDOp4FSGems
J.P. Fraley’s “Sail Away Ladies” on minstrel banjo and baritone uke 🙂
My pal Mark “Pokey” Hellenberg stopped by and I was noodling on my minstrel banjo this evening. I think these two instruments sound pretty together. Here’s JP Fraley’s Sail Away Ladies. (Keep in mind if you’re a clawhammer player eying my hands… this nyl-gut strung banjo has a longer scale length. The tune is in G, but the banjo is essentially tuned in “double G” … that is, string relationships and therefore chord shapes are as if I were playing in double D or double C, to play in the key of G. On a different banjo, I’d just use an open G tuning.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQvGXRloHMA
Ink Spots cover: “I Don’t Want to Set the World On Fire.” Written by Bennie Benjamin, Eddie Durham, Sol Marcus, and Eddie Seiler in 1938
https://www.facebook.com/1416240022/videos/195091693140546/
Pokey crooning “It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie.” Written in 1936 by Billy Mayhew and covered by The Ink Spots.
https://www.facebook.com/1416240022/videos/135101019221275/
MATT BOX
MATT BOX plays bass for CAITLIN KRAUS, and he is a member of the band SUPERNOBODY.
CAITLIN KRAUS at the 2020 Virtual Nelsonville Music Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZJFIal2SyU
CAITLIN KRAUS (with Matt Box and Mark Hellenberg): “Down to You”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0pAdNOZgn4
CAITLIN KRAUS (with Matt Box and Mark Hellenberg): “All Along”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enLvd_eoXY8
SUPERBODY on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXXtu7PdhCLa5ars8O-fGCg
SUPERBODY: “Sheep”
“Lead track from Supernobody album YOU CAN’T GO BACK. This video was made by Adam Remnant and his video production team at Hocking College in Nelsonville, OH 2019.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vaw3n6pfFSc
SUPERBODY: “High-Ku” (lyrics by Matt Box)
Steve Mowrey commented, “Damn fine tune & video. Love it.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcZocDCy4Yg
SUPERNOBODY: “Spill”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjmqteLVLuM
SUPERNOBODY: “V for Victory: the fall and rise of Connie Startraveler (Director’s Cut)”
“A Space Rock film by Supernobody. Connie Startraveler brings NASA’s golden record #1 back to Earth and is befriended by Citizen Ape. Together, they square off against UFO investigators in order to broadcast the golden record to the human race.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CKJrrGjGUQ
Supernobody (with Matt Box) on Bandcamp
https://supernobody1.bandcamp.com
Supernobody (with Matt Box) on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/artist/420dLADkc1L4GiWCu1kB62
Supernobody (with Matt Box) on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXXtu7PdhCLa5ars8O-fGCg
SUPERNODY ON BANDCAMP
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The Taming of a Shrew: A Retelling
Tarlton’s Jests: A Retelling
Thomas Middleton’s A Chaste Maid in Cheapside: A Retelling
Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women: A Retelling
Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s The Roaring Girl: A Retelling
Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s The Changeling: A Retelling
The Trojan War and Its Aftermath: Four Ancient Epic Poems
Virgil’s Aeneid: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 5 Late Romances: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 10 Histories: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 11 Tragedies: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 12 Comedies: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 38 Plays: Retellings in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 1 Henry IV, aka Henry IV, Part 1: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 2 Henry IV, aka Henry IV, Part 2: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 1 Henry VI, aka Henry VI, Part 1: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI, aka Henry VI, Part 2: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s 3 Henry VI, aka Henry VI, Part 3: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s All’s Well that Ends Well: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s As You Like It: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Henry V: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Henry VIII: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s King John: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s King Lear: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Lost: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Othello: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Richard II: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Richard III: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Tempest: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Two Noble Kinsmen: A Retelling in Prose
William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale: A Retelling in Prose
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- RISE ABOVE.
Theater director Tyrone Guthrie advised his actors and crew to do this. The advice means to rise above whatever forces are working against you. All of us have personal problems. No one’s life is perfect. Sometimes, life seems to conspire against us. Rise above all that, and produce the best work you can.
- ASTONISH ME.
Dance impresario Sergei Diaghilev advised his choreographers to do this. The advice means what it says. Do such good work that the person who commissioned the work—and of course the audience—is astonished. (Tyrone Guthrie also used this phrase.)
- DO IT NOW.
As a young man, choreographer George Balanchine nearly died and so he believed in living his life day by day and not holding anything back. He would tell his dancers, “Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for—for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.” Throughout his career, including before he became world renowned, he worked with what he had, not complaining about wanting a bigger budget or better dancers. One of the pieces of advice Mr. Balanchine gave over and over was this: “Do it now.”
- GO OUT AND GET ONE.
Ruth St. Denis once taught Martha Graham an important lesson when Ms. Graham was just starting to dance. Ms. St. Denis told Ms. Graham, “Show me your dance.” Ms. Graham replied, “I don’t have one,” and Ms. St. Denis advised, “Well, dear, go out and get one.” (Everyone needs an art to practice. Your art need not be dance. Perhaps your art can be writing autobiographical essays. Of course, you may practice more than one art.)
- WORK A LITTLE HARDER.
“I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good—maybe you’re not the best, so you should work a little harder.”—Jay Leno
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