Orchestrated by Jesse Roe
Performed by The Andersonville Sinfonietta

Suite pastorale: III. Sous-bois (Emmanuel Chabrier)

Performed by The Andersonville Sinfonietta.

A Dance

Baby, You’ve had my number
And you’ve had it for a mighty long time
If you can’t see my affliction
honey, you must be blind

The rodeo clown, he’s got nothing on you
Baggy pants and a floppy shoe
Ooh ooh ooh

You talk like a riverboat gambler
Raising my hopes with every word
If you’re bluffing then don’t tell me darling
I’m still steamed up from all I’ve heard
The medicine man, he sold you a brew
Guaranteed to make love true

We’ll take a ride through the country
Get to know each other real well
I understand you’re the traveling kind
But I’m buyin’ everything you can sell
Listen to the pretty whip-poor-will song
I’ll be listening to the whistle the mornings you’re gone
mornings you’re gone
Ooh ooh ooh

My Number

They put Santa in the Santatorium 
And now only his family can visit him 
He spends all day and most of the night
Wondering if he’ll ever get flight

Here come the reindeer flying low
Watch old Santa get up and go
It’s gonna be a wild and crazy
A wild and crazy
A Wild and Crazy Christmas this year

The old man stopped taking his meds
See him climbing out of his bed
Open the window and he’s out on the roof
And by morning the old man is loose

Here come the reindeer flying low
Watch old Santa get up and go
It’s gonna be a wild and crazy
A wild and crazy
A Wild and Crazy Christmas this year

A Wild and Crazy Christmas

How does a citizen respond when a democracy that prides itself on being exceptional betrays its highest principles? Plato despaired, but he also pointed the way to renewal. Read the text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/making-athens-great-again/517791/

Making Athens Great Again - The Atlantic - Essay Rebecca Goldstein

The controversial cityhood movement recently created an unlikely political alliance and redrew the lines of metro Atlanta. Meet the city’s newest neighbors.

Read text edition here: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/here-comes-the-neighborhood/523884/

Here Comes the Neighborhood - The Atlantic - Sam Rosen

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MIT linguist, philosopher, and political theorist Noam Chomsky speaks with actor and playwright Wallace Shawn, diving behind the headlines in an attempt to rigorously and rationally think through the political complications of American life today.

The New York Public Library Podcast

Noam Chomsky and Wallace Shawn

The epidemics of the early 21st century revealed a world unprepared, even as the risk of pandemics continues to multiply. Much worse is coming. Is Donald Trump ready?

My Number

Jesse Roe

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