Today in 1963 a horrific bombing prompted Nina Simone’s recording “Mississippi Goddamn.” The song was one of the first to directly address the civil rights struggle of the 1960s, that Simone called a show tune for a “show that hasn’t been written for it yet.” Find out more on today’s “A Classical Day in the Life.”
Critical Karaoke: A Show About Music and the Ideas it Inspires
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