I ask because of your close work with the people. .

The break up of the US we discussed appears to be accelerating due to the felon's policy and MAGA preference to buy into fantasy, fiction and lies more than facts and data. I call the leader not by name, but by title he earned. Is he the first felon to contend for a Bobel Peace Prize?

I retired from professional music, and my involvement now is in composition and directing music for The Salvation Army. I am arranging many of the good Vietnam era protest songs, and some popular music between then and now. There is a great amount of truth in some lyrics, expressing concern about the human condition, which are to me variations of lessons from the Parables.

My "orchestra" resembles Paul Schafer's CBS Orchestra that played for David Letterman. It's a whole new twist away from the trad brass band. I see us not as rival to tradition, but a compliment applicable to our time.