Judy Collins Live At Wolf Trap
Product Description Judy Collins Live At Wolf Trap - A live recording of Judy Collins 20th performance at the legendary Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. This CD includes Judy Collins new and classic songs plus a special bonus track - "Beyond the Sky " commissioned by the NASA ART PROGRAM to honor the first woman Commander of a Space Shuttle. About the Artist INTRODUCTION TO JUDY COLLINS LIVE AT WOLFTRAP - by Robert Aubry Davis/ SONGS FOR AGING CHILDREN I am a product of my time and place, centered in the consciousness of my generation, so my feelings for Judy Collins are passionate and real. There is no distance from this subject, although for most of my life I would be just another minor moon circling a distant planet around her star; I am not off the plane of the ecliptic, watching with perspective. The orbit began with the Folk Song and Ballad Club at Springbrook High School in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. in 1964. We listened to Judy's albums and tried to be like her, to be her. She went on to sing the Beatles and the songs of much more exotic Europeans; she brought Canadians to us who changed our lives (and hers): Ian and Sylvia, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell. She found a new and stirring voice by the time "Wildflowers" came out: her own. Womanly and wise, and soon stirring and spiritual, it was a defining addition to what had become "The Singer/Songwriter Generation." Her life, along with the world, became by turns tragic an trivial, exultant and unfulfilled. Our lives, along with Judy's, proceeded on during these decades, and found through her music and writing a way to come to grips with our place in time. It was her voice, the song, that brought her out of despair. In the face of the riptide of cynicism that has corroded the image of our generation, she can claim not only survival but real accomplishment. To watch her reminisce about those times and those wildly creative and all-too-often self-destructive young people we were--to hear her sing what are, after all, our songs--is our reminder that we also did well for the world, that we did open the window just a little wider to let the sun shine in. We might even realize the most damaging rust isn't from the complaints of generations before or after, but what we have done to ourselves. That I should move from a distant satellite to an immediate collaboration with Judy is just another reflection of our generation, leavened with luck and a generous hand from fortune. Stumbling through the world trying to make a living, falling in love with that most '60s invention of public radio, I got to try my hand in the mid-'70s on WJCT in Jacksonville. The "real" place I evolved for myself in this medium was presenting early music on the radio. A quarter century later, I still wonder to what extent Judy's quixotic idea of recording the ballata "Lasso, di donna" by Francesco Landini, the blind master organist from 14th century Florence, had an impact on my primary life's work. Finding my way back to Washington, working at WETA, the public broadcasting station that first made me see television as a way to expand my universe (the parallel today would be the internet), it was just a trick of fate that allowed Martin Goldsmith and me to begin a program in 1984 dedicated to music of our generation. Cribbing a title from Donovan by way of Joni Mitchell, we called it "Songs for Aging Children". Naturally, Judy Collins was often a subject--by what alchemy she herself became aware of the program, then a guest, then a regular participant on wildly-successful fundraising specials. The warm, wet spring of 1969 saw me having flunked out of Duke University in my sophomore year. I saw myself as a hippie, for all the warts and all the flowers that implied. Anyone who remembers that time remembers the dark nights of the soul, fear and loneliness that were the other side of the snapshot of happy communes and committed resistance. It had been one of those nights only Hesse could have written about; I was gone from (and unwelcome at) home, about to hitchhike across America, visiting My Old School as another chapter in childhood's end. It was a bad, a very bad night, where living to the dawn was a miracle achieved by a razor's edge. I wandered into the commons room of a frat house where the curtains were deep blue, and the sun was pressing that essential light into the walls of my senses. Someone put on "Who Knows Where the Time Goes," and it was one of those moments fresher 30 years later than this morning's breakfast, or even fresher than these very words I make here and now. Judy's voice became that Blue Northern who could blow my love to me (a love I so desperately hoped for and was so long coming). She was my song-friend, and as she asked me where the time goes, she also allowed me to know how time goes, how at age 20 time is always ready, impatient, expectant. Later that day, I went off on the road: a road that took me to myself, to the same now, and somehow to this miraculous event we offer to you with gratitude and with joy.
Judy Collins   Format: Audio CD
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