“My Way” by Luciano Pavarotti and Frank Sinatra, two incredible talents.
Update (2:10 PM): The station Seasons & Celebrations on Live365.com is playing Independence Day music. They say: “Enjoy a soundtrack for your 4th of July BBQ all month long with Patriotic music and songs about cities and towns in America! Happy Independence Day! Tom Callahan” I don’t know what they’ll play or how the station will be — I just found it and just started listening.
Dr. John Ridpath has an excellent lecture (1 hour 45 minutes; given February 21, 2005) on the life and character of George Washington, entitled “George Washington: Integrity and the Founding of America.” (Requires RealPlayer.) Recommended!
The lecture is summarized as follows:
The Founders of America all viewed George Washington as their leader, and many of them, including Jefferson, Adams, Madison and Hamilton, held him in awe. Washington was indeed a man of heroic courage and unbending integrity. In this lecture John Ridpath presents the struggle behind America’s founding, the intellectual context of the time and the central role that integrity plays in that struggle—as exemplified in the life and career of Washington.
© 2004 Ayn Rand Institute. All rights reserved. Reproduction or linking is prohibited.
I am waiting to hear what this “linking is prohibited” clause means. I asked a few days ago, but have not heard anything yet. Since Independence Day is tomorrow, I’ll go ahead and post this, but I might end up deleting the post, depending on what I hear from ARI.
Image from the Art Renewal Center.
A message from Michael Berliner: Put the “Independence” Back in Independence Day.
Historical Art Prints has some nice paintings of American Revolutionary subjects and themes. There is one of Molly Pitcher (gotta love her!!) and some of the great George Washington. Go take a look.
“Caesar was merciful, Scipio was continent, Hannibal was patient; but it was reserved for Washington to blend them all in one, and, like the lovely masterpiece of the Grecian artist, to exhibit in one glow of associated beauty, the pride of every model, and the perfection of every artist.” (From Lyman Beecher’s “The Memory of Our Fathers” in McGuffey’s Rhetorical Guide, or Fifth Reader (1844), p. 291. (As quoted in “Literacy and Orality in Our Times” by Walter J. Ong, S.J.).)
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