On weekend nights The Raindancer serves up endless plates of prime rib, lobster and seafood to diners from throughout the Capital Region, but on weekday afternoons the family-owned restaurant mostly caters to its regulars.
Jukebox: Blanchard brings music, message back to Skidmore
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Michael Hochanadel
“Skidmore College Class of 2012 Summer Reading Selections” is an inch-thick book of fiction, nonfiction and government reports combining both. Unlike previous class’ packages on Seamus Heaney or Tracy Kidder, this book has a CD glued to the cover: “A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina)” by jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard. It’s the Grammy-winning, pained, proud mournful music Blanchard made by expanding his soundtrack — and no tragedy has ever had a finer one — for Spike Lee’s HBO documentary “When the Levees Broke.”...
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