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Concert to feature world premiere of Branker's 'Ballad for Trayvon Martin'
Princeton University ^ | December 3, 2013

Posted on 12/03/2013 3:21:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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The Princeton University Orchestra and the University Concert Jazz Ensemble will perform a concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Dec. 5 and 6, in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall. The program will include works by Beethoven and Dvorak, a commissioned work by David Sanford and the world premiere of "Ballad for Trayvon Martin" by Anthony Branker, the Anthony H.P. Lee '79 P11 Senior Lecturer in Jazz Studies and director of the Program in Jazz Studies. For tickets call University Ticketing at 609-258-9220.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: anthonybranker; college; georgezimmerman; music; princeton; saintskittles; trayvon; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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Yes, you read that correctly.
1 posted on 12/03/2013 3:21:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh my—I’m moving that to the top of my MUST MISS list.


2 posted on 12/03/2013 3:23:41 PM PST by basil (2ASisters.org)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh, gee. I’m afraid I have a previously scheduled conflict.


3 posted on 12/03/2013 3:23:52 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ve never heard an orchestra attempt gangsta rap.....this should be interesting.


4 posted on 12/03/2013 3:25:25 PM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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5 posted on 12/03/2013 3:25:53 PM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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6 posted on 12/03/2013 3:34:07 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://www.anthonybranker.com/


7 posted on 12/03/2013 3:48:12 PM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If anyone in Congress truly felt in the Oath they swore, they would demand not one dollar of Federal grants would go to such an institution.

I guess Oaths do not mean much anymore.

Tell that to God someday.


8 posted on 12/03/2013 3:48:24 PM PST by hadaclueonce (Because Brawndo's got electrolytes. Because Ethanol has Big Corn Lobby)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Come and listen to a story ‘bout a boy man kid
Poor Trayvon thug barely kept hisself in school
Then one day he was scouting for a score,
And down to the ground Zimmermann he threw,
(Knock out game, Black game, ignored crime)

...
This?


9 posted on 12/03/2013 3:48:37 PM PST by Ingtar (The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
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To: Ingtar

I thought Elton and Bernie already wrote their song for him:

And he shall be Trayvon,
And he shall be a hood man.
And he shall be Trayvon,
in tradition with the family plan.
And he shall be Trayvon,
And he shall be a hood man.
......heeee shaaaall beeee TraaaaayyyyVVVVVVooooooonn.


10 posted on 12/03/2013 3:50:01 PM PST by dfwgator (Fire Muschamp. Go Michigan State!)
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Trayvon Martin

" We should ask ourselves, as individuals and as a society, how we can prevent future tragedies like this. As citizens, that’s a job for all of us. That’s the way to honor Trayvon Martin." - President of the United States Barack Hussein 0bama

11 posted on 12/03/2013 3:53:22 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: Ingtar

Who knows why you just had to make that lean,
who knows why you became part of the gangsta scene,
who knows who sold you all them blunts,
who understood your whistles and your grunts,
who made you assault the neighborhood watch,
whose jewelry was that you were caught w/at school
who made you act the ghetto fool?

Why didn’t your Crip daddy stick around,
whose head on the pavement did you pound,
who had to make a decision that fateful night,
when you left him no escape and picked a fight,
who made the choice to mock and sass,
an armed watchman (you called “creepy ass”),
who could’ve gone home but didn’t there go,
instead walked towards a six foot deep hole.


12 posted on 12/03/2013 3:53:46 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Of the 4 wars in my lifetime none came about because the US was too strong." Reagan)
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Might as well play” When I’m Dead and Gone “by McGuiness Flint


13 posted on 12/03/2013 3:55:45 PM PST by Renegade
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The composer Anthony Branker.


15 posted on 12/03/2013 4:00:04 PM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: dfwgator

With apologies to Horst Wessel....

Hoodies high, ranks closed
The homies march with pants slung low.
Comrades shot by the white hispanics
march in spirit with us in our ranks.
The street free for the brown battalions,
The street free for the grievance lords.
Millions, full of dope, look up at the skittles;
The day breaks for freedom and for skittles.
For the last time the lean will now be drunk;
For the struggle now we all stand ready.
Soon will fly Trayvon-flags over every street;
Old School will last only a short time longer.
Hoodies high, ranks closed,
The homies march with pants slung low.
Comrades shot by the white hispanics
march in spirit with us in our ranks.


16 posted on 12/03/2013 4:02:54 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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17 posted on 12/03/2013 4:04:55 PM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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Trayvon trayvon trayvon trayvooon please don’t take yo mouth to town trayvon ¶¶¶
Maybe O’nocchio could honor his suedo son.


18 posted on 12/03/2013 4:15:23 PM PST by Recompennation (Constitutional protection for all not just selectively for Democrats.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Horst Wessel had a song too


19 posted on 12/03/2013 4:20:15 PM PST by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: basil

ROFLMAO!

GREAT COMMENT!


20 posted on 12/03/2013 4:30:16 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie
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