It happened after the passing of the Civil Rights Act in the United States Congress, the creation of the television series ROOTS.

It made LaVar Burton a superstar, and writer Alex Haley a game changer. (1977)

(Courtesy of Marvel Studios, picture by OSC)

40 years later (2018) the black experience awakens the conscience of America with BLACK PANTHER the movie, writing Chadwick Boseman indelibly in our cerebral cortex. WACANDA FOREVER, made with folding arms across the chest to form an “X”, pushes the mind back to the 1968 Olympics when Tommy Smith and John Carlos raised their black fists on high, symbolizing “black power”!

To date, Black Panther has generated 843 million dollars at the box office. Someone came up with the idea of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra playing the music of the film while watching the movie on a jumbo screen. Would there be enough interest for patrons to get dressed and succumb to such an experience?

“You bet!” For 2 days the Meyerhoff auditorium was packed, with cheers at intermission and the conclusion.

Some Baltimoreans came dressed as though they were visiting residents from Wakanda.

Model, Ro Sharzad

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Chestnuts, layered with apricots and lamb. (Scrumptious !)(Azerbaijan)

It is not December. It is not Christmas. It is not an appearance of the legendary Nat King Cole. But have you ever given any thought to the value of chestnuts? It is a good source of antioxidants, rich in garlic and ellagic acid, when cooked. (WebMD).

You may not like lamb, but when cooked with apricots and chestnuts, I am told the impact on your taste buds is like an out of body experience.

Baltimore’s own, CYRUS CHESTNUT

In Baltimore Maryland, that taste can be experienced by succumbing to a musical bath from a human chestnut, CYRUS CHESTNUT.

Born in Baltimore, and showed musical prowess as a child prodigy, that took him to colleges in Boston and Baltimore, finally ending up as a professor at nearby Howard University, Washington D.C.

This chestnut was roasting others in his birth month of January, at Keystone Corner. www.theculturepage.com was there:

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The Cast of GOD’S TROMBONES

“Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, I will call you woman!”

He had the entire world at his feet, but he was the only human, when his master provided a companion. And then it happened, he came home to find his beloved, who toyed with the idea of independence, had finally done it. (Ran the red light and got a ticket). What Was he going to do? Stand firm, or follow the path of “drunken love”? He did the latter, and this time the Master not in the voice of a trumpet or clarinet, but that of a TROMBONE, announced, “by the sweat of your blood you will eat bread, and she will bring forth your kind in pain!”

Throughout the existence of man on earth, he has heard the trombones of the Master. Pharoah of Egypt had a similar experience. Through Moses the trombones were heard aloud.

Now it is 2023, and by calculation over six thousand years since man lost his paradise prepared for him by the Master.

 History has confirmed the above, by archeological findings, and writings by historians, and various “men of the cloth”.

The sound of the Master’s voice has flowed through the styluses of playwrights. James Weldon Johnson called his, GOD’S TROMBONES.

The Arena Players playhouse in Baltimore staged the play:

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Korean Beauty (Meyerhof Hall).

The year of the Rabbit for CHINESE, and the associated countries in the continent, 2023 could bring dire consequences. RED could help your rabbit hop to a safe landing.

For those who subscribe to the proponents of Zodiac mythology, RED is the mitigator. Red shoes, red handbags, even red underwear!

Pastries before the Concert (Notice, the red box).

It’s Baltimore Maryland; (January). Asians are a staple in our society. Our new Governor is Black (a first) and our outgoing governor (white) is married to an Asian from Korea. Our primary Concert Hall is the Meyerhoff; so, what better way to show “inclusion” than to have the splendor of this community at this facility, in celebration of the Lunar New Year. A first for Baltimore!

Noodles! A must have, at Asian gatherings. (Photos by OSC).

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra was conducted by Ms. Yue Boa (Houston Symphony Orchestra); guest violinist, Stella Chen, hobbled out on crutches, and thrilled the packed house with the speed of her fingers on the violin, at times, making it look as though the violin is in replacement for that loved one that took her breath away.

It was a thrilling night, that lasted four hours with a potpourri of music and food in the foyer:

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(Example of stand alone Kiosk)

Did you know the word “billboard” was originated with a man whose name had the word board in it? He made signs for advertising purposes. Like “Xerox” or “Band Aid”, the product name had little to do with its purpose or fulfillment.

“Concrete Beauty” by Takia Ross (Baltimore MD.)

Billboards have had an enormous impact on the human psyche; MARLBORO and LUCKY STRIKE, cigarette company brands raked in millions of dollars using billboards.

Remember the stand-alone phone booth? Then someone thought of inserting pictures on the sides for advertising purposes; that gave birth to the marketing Kiosk; much cheaper than billboards.

“Truth Hurts” by Wickerham & Lomax (Baltimore MD.)

In Baltimore Md., there is this organization known as CURRENT SPACE.COM. The intent, to advertise local artists, hoping to provide recognition, and eventual renumeration.

The cry is out, loud, and clear, Baltimore, support your local artists!

“Crooked Smiles” by Bryan Robinson (Baltimore MD.)

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Gaby Echiverri (violin).

The headline was taken from a poetic song by Ging heut Morgan (1897).

Spaceship Landing: Jefferson Hirshman, Bruce Adams (guitars); Daniel Stuckenschneider (bass); Conner LeFevre (drums).

In summary he (Morgan) was delighted by the vegetation as it responded to the dawn of nature, when the world came alive, and in later years of maturity, that vegetation, unlike people, whose talents mature only with time and gentle coercion; then comes the embrace, very palpable and loud, … “you have made it!”.

The German composer had no idea that 225 years later, his classical song would be sung by a youthful African mezzo-soprano, NICOLE OKUNDAYE.

It was an Honors Showcase, night at UMBC (Baltimore County), presenting to the public what the “harvest” of musical talent has produced this year.

Nicole Johnson (piano).

DR. LISA CELLA, Chair of the Performing Arts program at the school, was nervous and excited, and like Morgan, her exuberance said, “Is it not a fine world!?”

What fine fruits, these bluebells, I say.

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CIMONE AUSTIN (Soprano)

It happened this December on the East Side of Baltimore Md. A small group of believers decided to follow a man in his vision to save the inner-city black youth, from the speedy treadmill to nowhere. (Cash-app robberies, squeegeeing, flunking school, drugs, and alcohol abuse) He used what he has mastered successfully, music.

Urban Choral Arts Society Ensemble

How will this manifest itself? Music is not a mechanic shop, not an air conditioning or sheet metal factory! Not a bakery, brick laying industry, electrical apprenticeship, culinary arts! “Non- a -dat!” “Feel me?”

Ronal S. McFadden donned the robe, and proceeded to engage in acts of mercy, saving youth. He is perhaps as tall as his Master whom he is emulating and felt just as Jesus, with the wave of a hand changed the world, so can he with a baton.

Ronald wanted us to see how far he has come since 2015 and thought the messianic celebration month (December) was the time to do it; he formed THE URBAN CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY. Here’s what he gave us on December 13, 2022:

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Correction:

The first Soprano in the video is Angel Strong -Archer, and not Maya Millsape, as it reads.

 

Cast of BLACK NATIVITY

In 1967, when gospel great Edwin Hawkins converted the 1755 hymn, it became the “go to” for the then “negroes”. Today, we are African Americans, and “God is Good” is the replacement.

We have arrived at another December, with the adoptive birth month of Jesus. (Chronology puts it as October, for shepherds would not be out with their flock in December when its snow on the ground).

African Americans converted to Christianity are in celebration mood. Coming out of the pandemic, the voices calling on the name of Jesus are erupting like unexpected volcanoes. (a.k.a. Hawaii).

At the oldest black theater in America (Arena Players) African Americans are lining up to see Black Nativity. Here’s why:

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