White Ripple Community Band September 12, 2016

We returned to class after a 2-week hiatus for Labor Day. It's also the band's one year anniversary, and Sue Ross from The Post-Tribune was there to interview band members about their experiences. Alan, Sherry, and Tom have been in the band since the beginning, and many others nearly as long. Some, like Janice Polka, Greg Brown, Rene Garcia and Beth Vega, pop in when schedules permit.

White Ripple Community Band: once in, always in.

Here are this week's songs:

Song 1: Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) by The Beatles. Rich thoughtfully provides the melody notes for guitar players in this YouTube clip.

Fwiw, Rolling Stone lists Norwegian Wood at #89 on its list of 100 Greatest Beatles Songs. I think it should be higher than that, and I think the arson theory is completely nuts, but follow the link and have a read--  it won't take long, and it's a good one.

Song 2: The Rose by Amanda McBroom. Not content merely to write the quintessential love ballad of the 1970s, McBroom is a prolific character actor who has guest starred in a number of TV projects. My favorite is her role as Captain Louvois in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode called "Measure of a Man." It's an hour spent on a central question: is an android a sentient being, with all the rights (and more importantly, the free will) of a human?