Name: Here's That Rainy Day (snippet) by Donnie Rankin
Duration: 2 min 39 s
Description: A snippet from my impromptu visit to the Berkeley Community Theatre to try The NOR-CAL chapter of ATOS' 4/41 Wurlitzer.

Absolutely SUBLIME arrangement and registrational choices Donnie! 

No date or details on this recording.  Very likely from about 1960.

Peterson experimental organ

George Wright Demonstrates the Peterson Experimental Organ

Waiting Room

A snippet from my impromptu visit to the Berkeley Community Theatre to try The NOR-CAL chapter of ATOS' 4/41 Wurlitzer.

Here's That Rainy Day (snippet)

I created this piece in a response to the recent uptick in violence against African Americans. Each chime heard represents a life lost at the hands of police. You can put in any name you can think of to represent the chime. The choir voices heard represent the voices of those lives lost. Sandra Bland, George Floyd, Oscar Grant, Calvon Reid, and at least 1004 just in this year (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/police-shootings-2019/). 
I myself have felt threatened more than once by police and even was handcuffed in front of my mother for expired tabs( clearly my fault, but does it require handcuffs) or another situation where I was pulled over by 4 cop cars because of "burned out license plate lights" (they weren't burned out at all). The piano chords represent the wheels of justice churning and not changing (only two chords played throughout the entire piece). The vocal choir represents a requiem to those who have died and the last chord  is the cries of those who have been left to mourn and feel the loss of those who did not need to die.the soprano on top of the choir represents the mothers of those left to mourn their children. This is not a happy or light piece of music but one that leaves the listener with a question- if you are not a person of color and have never said anything but have friends of color, what are you going to do to change the narrative?

Here's That Rainy Day (snippet)

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