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Harlem Repertory Theatre Does the Wizard of Oz Featured on New York Live TV!!

August 30, 2019 ypadmin

Check out this NBC segment that aired 8/27/19 about our Wizard of Oz: A Jazz Musical for All Ages, a unique 21st century take!

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Not a leaf is heard to murmur,
Not a bird is there to sing,
And bewild’ring eyes
Scan the fearful skies,
Asking “why” this strange and silent Spring?

Children hide and roses tremble,
Doors are dark and shades are down,
And the rains of hate
Rust the garden gate,
As the ghost of Spring stalks the town.

Is this the land where flags were flown,
To bring this hopeful world a dream
Of Spring unknown?
Is this the dream?
Is this the Spring?
The silent Spring that silent men
Have reaped and sown?

Silent men, take heart, take wing,
And sing away this silent Spring.

Song lyric: “The Silent Spring” (1963)
Lyric by Yip Harburg. Music by Harold Arlen
This lyric, inspired by and named after Rachel Carson’s landmark 1962 book about environmental degradation, was introduced by Lena Horne at a civil rights benefit concert at Carnegie Hall in October 1963; she subsequently recorded the song and it is included in the album “Here’s Lena Now!” (20th Century Fox Records). In the coronavirus crisis, the lyric resonates in yet another way.

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