Yep. She's all that and a bag of chips...
Posted on 09/04/2009 3:53:50 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
As First Lady Michelle Obama finishes the summer with the rest of the First Family at Camp David -- a post vacation vacation, following their Martha's Vineyard stay -- comes some FLOTUS news on three fronts, including a new jazz work inspired by her life.
*A new jazz composition about Mrs. Obama had its world premiere in Chicago on Tuesday at the Spertus Institute. It was commissioned by the Jazz Institute of Chicago and won a rave review in the Chicago Tribune:
"Though some minor flaws need to be addressed, Chicago flutist Nicole Mitchell's 'Honoring Grace: Michelle Obama' emerged as a significant addition to the rapidly growing oeuvre of Obama jazz epics.
"Unlike most of them, this one represented a feminist statement, in that a leading female composer attempted to view Barack Obama's ascent from Michelle Obama's perspective, as well as her own.
"At certain junctures in this work, singer Dee Alexander -- assuming Michelle Obama's voice -- cried out: 'How could I know?' How could she have anticipated, in other words, that the man she married would become a symbol to millions?"
Mrs. Obama personally is jazzed about jazz. In June, she hosted the first White House "Jazz Studio" as part of an on-going music series she is overseeing.
"Jazz has been a part of my life since I was a little girl," Mrs. Obama said at the White House event. "My mother's father, who we call 'South Side,' before there was room-to-room speakers, he had a speaker in every house, in every room in his house, and he played it 24 hours a day at the highest volume he could put it on. And that's how I grew up in my household. At Christmas, birthdays, Easter, it didn't matter, there was jazz playing in our household."
*President Obama and the first lady are featured in four upcoming Rodale magazines in stories touting the Obama White House drive for a health care overhaul and healthy living in general.
Mrs. Obama, according to the New York Times, will be in Rodale's Women's Health talking about health care reform and "keeping down calories in the White House kitchen," among other topics. She'll be on the covers of all four magazines, including Children's Health and Men's Health, and in Prevention she'll talk about her workout, eating and sleep habits.
There's no copy out yet -- just the tout in the NYT that the White House packaged the Obamas for Rodale's publications.
*Japan's incoming first lady, a former actress, said she shares a "sensibility" with Mrs. Obama, whom she has never met. She also wants to star in a movie with Tom Cruise.
The new Japanese prime minister will be Yukio Hatoyama, 66, who will formally be elected to the post when the Japanese Diet meets later this month. His wife is Miyuki Hatoyama, who talked about Mrs. Obama in an interview with the Kyodo News Agency.
"I think she is so natural and has a kind of sensibility similar to mine. If I can have the chance to meet her, I would look forward to it," Miyuki said.
Well, she will probably have that chance. The world leaders are coming to the United Nations the third week of September for the opening of the 64th Session of the U.N. General Assembly. The Obamas will host a reception in New York for all the chiefs of state and their spouses.
Yep. She's all that and a bag of chips...
How does living in an upper income family and neighborhood and going to the best schools, given everything handed to you without working, inspire anything?
It goes into a “Money for nothin” rif when it gets to the part where she gets her $300k hospital job.
'Honoring Grace: Michelle Obama'
Grace. Yeah, that's the word I was looking for.
When they start calling her "Blessed," we're past the point of no return.
Yeah, GWB took these all the time.
Found a video of some of the celebration. crank up the sound......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB53M1kGM3A
Yuk yuk yuk!
“At certain junctures in this work, singer Dee Alexander — assuming Michelle Obama’s voice — cried out: ‘How could I know?’ How could she have anticipated, in other words, that the man she married would become a symbol to millions?”
Sounds like it is both artsy AND fartsy...also sounds like a rip off of a cross between Jesus Christ Superstar (pardon me for wanting to gag) and Don’t Cry for Me Argentina...we know how the Lefties love those stories...
Here’s an earlier jazz tribute to Michelle O...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08wOPt-2PeE
she messed around with a bloke named Smokey
she loved him, though he was coke-y
he took her down to Chinatown
and he showed her how to kick the gong around
LOL! For reasons that escape me, my husband sings that song to me all the time... *SNORT*
Queen of Heaven comes to mind...
BTW that “Honoring Grace” would have to be from “Amazing Grace”
I was thinking her “How could I know?” cry came when she caught him with Larry Sinclair... *Titter*
ROTFLMAO! Nothing anyone could write could make that any funnier.
My wife would kill me, but once in awhile when I feel brave, I make a beeping sound when she’s backing up... kinda like a delivery truck. LOL
She gets even by making only salads for dinner for a few weeks. ;>)
She was already Chewbacca in the Star Wars trilogy. We saw her life play out there. Enough is enough.
These "leaders" we got really marry some smart chicks!
Cool. You can never have enough Soviet Tractor Art. Glad to see it make a comeback.
I’m pretty sure you’re a dead man...
But she’s already proven she has a sense of humor because she married YOU! :)
Husband’s other ‘joke’ (hard to believe he’s a MENSA Member, ain’t it?) is if I say the word, “but” when I’m talking, he’ll pipe up with, “Well, that’s a PRETTY BIG subject!”
And that’s when I hit him with the frying pan, Officer...LOL!
LOL After 38 years it’s too late to toss me back, so I get away with having the mind of a 5 year old. ;>)
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