Mark O'Connor/James Taylor/Yo-Yo Ma/Edgar Meyer - "Hard Times Come Again No More"

The classic Stephen Foster tune here given a new rendition by Mark O'Connor, James Taylor, Yo-Yo Ma and Edgar Meyer. It was featured on their 2000 recording "Appalachian Journey." Here performed live on Live At Lincoln Center, PBS.


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[flintstone9812]

A string is plucked, a bow is drawn and sound leaps forth. Where once there was nothing silence reigned, but now music fills the air.

This is perhaps the closest humans come to being like God.

From nothing music has been created and all who hear it are blessed.

[c00per69]

I sense the anguish of the past in the comments below. Sin only brings pain, and prevents us from living in the present. Prepare for the future through forgiveness and love.

[johnholliday57]

Absolutely beautiful.

[oldikins]

@flintstone9812 I really like your comment. You are right in so many ways. Music is the language of life.

[nycbassist]

Respond to this video...

I don't get troubled feelings when art rises in defiance of the times imposed on them. I DO get troubled feelings when art is in support of those structures, as in Wagner. Clearly, Foster's lyrics on this song show a much deeper understanding of the human condition that I would have imagined. Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky had to create under oppression but NEVER supported that. I'm not sure what your argument really is..but your hostility is really misspent. No cross here.

[nycbassist]

@Mandolin1944

You really are quite a reactionary person, Mandolin, and I'm not sure what your hostility is about. I think, if you would read, instead of reacting that I said at the very start that this song IS quite beautiful. As a musician I think it has potential in the jazz idiom I play in. That was the FIRST thing I said, and I take imsintx's comments to be much more constructive. I think you're totally misunderstanding what I'm about. Art never takes place in a vacuum.

[Mandolin1944]

@nycbassist Well I guess you will have to suffer along with your self-imposed cross then. BTW do you also get these troubled feelings when you hear Russian music written during the brutal and repressive Soviet period or with Chinese music written in the confines of those totalitarian regimes? That ever cross your mind? Millions died and are deprived of civil rights there too. By your standard we should not read history books.

[nycbassist]

@Mandolin1944

Wow.. excuse me?? That's an extremely hostile response. I'm not faulting the music or the musicians at all, and I think Cooper's response is much more focused and adult. What I was saying and am STILL saying is that it's always hard to reconcile the beauty of Foster's compositions with his often racist lyrics. I have difficulty with Wagner in the same sense.. an amazing composer whose ideology was lauded by the nazi's, with his idea of the Nordic ubermensch.

[Mandolin1944]

@nycbassist Oh brilliant! Let's just burn all music and all historical records of the period. Who but a dunce would be trying to "balance" anything here? And who but a dunce would think or imply, in any way, that the musicians here are trying to make or support any political statement/sentiment? Just listen to the MUSIC for pete sake or don't listen. No one is forcing anyone to watch this video. There is NOTHING to be made "right".

[imsintx]

@nycbassist

The racists lyrics have all been revised & the connection to history remains. His lyrics at their worst contained racist but common colloquialisms of the day.Others at their best, reflexed African Americans with a dignity & pathos that seem unprecedented of the era.Calling a black woman a lady & lyrics of “My Old Kentucky Home” include an indictment against slavery, just two examples.My point is we need a sense of others culture & history before making conclussions about them.