Episode Summary
Join us for a most wonderful story about how musing on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream!” speech and America the Beautiful traveled a musical way to becoming a new America the Dream.
Episode Notes
Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk. I’m your host, Diane Wyzga.
Today we have a special bonus episode because the boys are back in town. My guest is Steve Schuch joining us from Hancock, New Hampshire. Steve is a former Peace Corps volunteer, Audubon naturalist, award-winning recording artist and author, composer, musician, and recipient of the Parent’s Choice Gold Award for his CD Trees of Life. You’ve heard his music on NPR and PBS. But mostly I’ve known Steve as my brother-in-law. I’ve invited him here to share with us a most wonderful story about how musing on Martin Luther King, Jr. and America the Beautiful traveled all its musical way to becoming a new America the Dream.
What makes this such a neat story? Let’s hear how all this came to be. Welcome to the podcast, Steve!
Hello, Jeff ~
How kind of you to take the time to listen. That *is* where the unfulfilled promise of America will continue to gain traction. To the ideas, what ifs, optimism, collaboration, creativity and so forth as you mentioned on Linked In.
I’ve known Steve as my sister’s main squeeze and then husband for decades. I’ve followed his work, collected his music, helped him out on word choices for songs he was composing, sweated it out as cognitive functions were dulled by Lyme’s Disease, prevailed up on him to lend two pieces to score my podcasts, and yet this was the first time we’ve taken this kind of opportunity to sit and chat and laugh and learn and share – and then (!) get to bring all of it to the world.
You are welcome – and thank you for journeying along with us ~ Diane
Diane —
I just spent the most enjoyable two hours, first listening to your brother-in-law explain how he came up with the concept for America the Dream, then listening / watching the arrangements for III and IV, and finally watching Shelbie Rassler’s “What the World Needs Now.”
My eyes still moist from it all, I turned to the New York Times only to read that the Voting Rights Bill in front of the Senate is likely to fail. Only in America. America really is an unfulfilled promise. We are still in the works.
Thanks for a wonderful journey, Diane.