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  <a href="/blog/blog/7680662/blue-lights-of-berlin">&quot;Blue Lights&quot; of Berlin</a>&nbsp;
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  <div class="message"><p>You may be familiar (possibly <i>very </i>familiar) with my original holiday song <a href="https://youtu.be/Oc_A9_FY5yY?si=6pHffukiYrZkEPMc">“Blue Lights”</a>—and the various iterations of it, including a track on my 2007 CD of the same name and a live recording from a concert I did in 2019. The latter was released during the pandemic as part of my EP <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3HJBkbmMN8JPRDauHgtMss?si=Ur8MLsI1S8aVLXhpLFcRyg"><i>Dream: Live Recordings from the Map Room</i></a> (referring to a former stage at Bowery Electric in NYC).</p><p>I always sing “Blue Lights,” which involves my parents' wartime romance, if I’m doing a show anywhere near Christmas, and that…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/7680662/blue-lights-of-berlin">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>I met Betty Buckley in 2014, after I interviewed her for <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/music/2014/09/betty-buckley-album">Vanity Fair's website</a>. At her invitation, my husband, Robert Rosen, and I attended her concert at Joe's Pub here in NYC, and afterward she asked us to join her table at the club’s restaurant, The Library, where Bob shot the photo below. I soon took Betty's uniquely enlightening master class for singers, and over the years I reviewed several of her beautiful, heartening concerts.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</strong><br>&nbsp;</p><p>…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/7580844/betty-buckley-s-not-so-little-life">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>“Welcome to Uvalde.” I noticed the sign as my husband and I approached the small city in our grey rental Prius.&nbsp;<i>U-vaul-dee.&nbsp;</i>Three little unified syllables—until recently unknown to most the world, myself included—now heavy with loss, pain, and death. It felt as though Bob and I had driven, taking Highway 90 from San Antonio, into a tragedy.&nbsp;</p><p>I pulled into the Motel 6 on East Main Street, where a “Fox News—Austin” van sat in the parking lot. This was the only place I could find that hadn’t been fully booked…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/7577927/uvalde-odyssey">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>It was breathtaking to walk into the grand St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church, in Brooklyn Heights, last week and see the spacious altar area aglow with hundreds of candles, a grand piano elevated among them. The realization that the candles were battery-powered didn’t much diminish their effect, and anyway no one wants to risk a fire in this historic house of worship (a fine example of Gothic Revival architecture).<br>&nbsp;</p><p><br>The piano—and the many people settled into pews—were awaiting Alexis Ffrench, he of the…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/7504402/piano-by-candlelight-alexis-ffrench">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>Last Christmas my husband, Robert Rosen, and I went to a friend’s for dinner. I had no idea when we were walking up the steep flights to his apartment that the evening would spark a new song. He’d had us over the Christmas before, but this time, being in the home of Michael Medeiros, who was John Lennon’s gardener—Lennon called him “Mike Tree”—seemed more of a heady, almost magical experience, with the stories and music (and wine) we shared in his spare but cozy space. Lennon’s witty, skeptical…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/7500852/two-decembers">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>I’ve been a fan of Rosanne Cash’s since hearing her 1981 smash single “Seven Year Ache” and buying the album of the same name. I’ve seen her live a few times: at WNYC’s the Greene Space, singing songs her father, Johnny Cash, recommended to her as classics, from her album <i>The List </i>(2009); at Carnegie Hall performing songs from <i>The River &amp; the Thread,&nbsp;</i>an artful odyssey (listen to “A Feather’s Not a Bird” and “Modern Blue”), which won several Grammys, including best Americana album, in 2015; and at <a href="https://marylynmaiscott.com/blogs/blog/posts/6021920/unity-and-change-with-rosanne-cash">an event</a>…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/7317845/rosanne-cash-and-blue-lights">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>A while ago, I was invited to sing my song <a href="https://marylynmaiscott.hearnow.com/alithias-flowers-children-of-uvalde" target="_blank">“Alithia’s Flowers (Children of Uvalde)”</a> at an event in Uvalde, Texas, for the one-year anniversary of the school shooting there, which took 21 lives, mostly children. I had written and released the song soon after that incident, which took place on May 24, 2022.&nbsp;And since that time I've been in touch with the parents of Alithia Ramirez, the 10-year-old victim whose drawing inspired my song (they kindly let me use it for the cover art).<br><br>My husband and favorite…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/7233233/journey-to-uvalde-a-photo-essay">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>I’ve always found <a href="https://www.instagram.com/amyirvingofficial/" target="_blank">Amy Irving</a> compelling as an actor, something about the combination of beauty, delicacy, and intelligence. She was Richard Dreyfuss’s enticing rival in <i>The Competition,</i> Peter Riegert’s literary uptown girl in <i>Crossing Delancey,</i> and Barbra Streisand’s consummate (if unconsummated) beard in <i>Yentl,</i> among other roles.<br><br>At the age of 69, Irving has now teamed up with the big <a href="https://www.goolispresents.com/" target="_blank">band </a><a href="https://www.goolispresents.com/">Goolis</a><a href="https://www.goolispresents.com/" target="_blank"> </a>to do something new—an album, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/014ho5GT3tMz8pYEGwiHaD?si=-JbYQ7VCRxioRP0UpRPBVw" target="_blank"><i>Born in a Trunk</i></a><i> </i>(her father was a director and her mother an actor)—that reflects…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/7189134/sultry-as-jessica-rabbit-amy-irving-sings">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>Here's a preview of an upcoming post (Wednesday) from the <a href="https://www.robertrosennyc.com/blog">blog of Robert Rosen</a>, my husband the writer (because it's about my new song and more!):</p><p>On Billie Holiday's Birthday</p><p>April 7 was Billie Holiday's 108th birthday, and Mary Lyn Maiscott and I celebrated by tuning in to <i>St. James Infirmary</i>, Michael J. Mand's show on <a href="http://www.owwrny.org/">OWWR</a>. In his three-hour webcast, which begins 1 p.m. Eastern Time on Fridays, Michael plays an eclectic selection of rock, jazz, and blues—old classics as well as new material from unknown…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/7187117/guest-blogger-reveals-new-song-interview">Read more</a></span></div>
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  <div class="message"><p>As I’m listening to Michael J. Mand’s <i>St. James Infirmary </i>show on <a href="http://owwrny.org/">OWWR,</a> I’m thinking of <a href="https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/stjamesinfirmary24/episodes/2023-02-10T20_30_06-08_00">last week </a>when he played <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2lN7bhUoUG9gdip5tgcjRx?si=0648955fe15b4fd1">my cover of “All I Have to Do Is Dream,”</a> right after Bonnie Raitt’s Grammy-winning “Just Like That” and John Lennon’s “God”—love the segues! This set starts about 45 minutes in, with my song about 9 minutes later.</p><p>Michael chooses his songs very carefully, and a couple that I especially like on this podcast, besides the two I’ve mentioned, are “I Wish It Would Rain,” another cover, this one from…</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/blog/blog/7156129/god-st-james-and-me">Read more</a></span></div>
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