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