Black History Month.
Walking. Arroyo. La Cueva Neighborhood. Stretching.
Let America Be America Again – by Langston Hughes – James Earl Jones
Rise Up – Andra Day
You Don’t Have to Ride Jim Crow! – Bayard Rustin
Fight for Your Mind – Ben Harper
AMERICA HAS A PROBLEM – Beyoncé
That’s the Way God Planned It – Billy Preston
If I Could Help Somebody – The Blind Boys of Alabama
Hands Up – Blood Orange
History Repeats – Brittany Howard
Young, Gifted and Black – Aretha Franklin
This Is America – Childish Gambino
Black America Again – Common, feat. Stevie Wonder
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) – Marvin Gaye
Woke Up This Morning – Fannie Lou Hamer
Wade In the Water – The Fisk Jubilee Singers
Everytime I Feel the Spirit -The Florida A&M University Concert Choir
Ain’t No New Thing – Gil Scott-Heron
Deep River – The Howard University Chamber Choir
Sloganize, Patronize, Realize, Revolutionize (Black Lives Matters) – Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra & Wynton Marsalis
People Gotta Be Free – Keb’ Mo’
Keep Your Hand On the Plow – Mahalia Jackson
Blood Done Sign My Name – Mary D Williams
Eyes on the Prize – Mavis Staples
Strange Fruit – Nina Simone
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child – Odetta
Go Down, Moses – Paul Robeson
We March – Prince
Oh Freedom – The Princely Players
We Rise – Rhiannon Giddens
Precious Lord – Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Beautiful Struggle – Talib Kweli
You’re Not Alone – Our Native Daughters
Step By Step – Sweet Honey In The Rock
A Change Is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke
God Bless the Child – Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra
I Know Where I’ve Been – Queen Latifah
Grandma’s Hands -Bill Withers
Respect – Otis Redding
What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye
We Are Each Others Angels – African Children’s Choir
I’ve Got Dreams To Remember – Angélique Kidjo
What A Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
Lift Every Voice and Sing – The Boys Choir of Harlem
01 February 2026
Filed under Albuquerque, Antiracism, Current Events, Friends, Music, playlist
31 January 2026
Walking in the La Cueva Neighborhood.
Third Movement of the Violin Concero by Aram Khachaturian, arranged for flute – Sean Koenig
Honky Tonk – Miles Davis
A Song for You – Donny Hathaway
Kanawa – Habib Koité & Bamada
A Hard Day’s Night – The Beatles
Happy Lesser Bairam Feast – Rim Banna
This World – The Staple Singers
Turn It Over – Noel Paul Stookey
Breathe – Roger Waters
The Kelly’s Keep Comin’ – Kris Kristofferson
Dancer – David Crosby
Filed under Albuquerque, Exercise, Family, Music, playlist
30 January 2026
Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland in 1972.
Sunday Bloody Sunday – John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Domhnach Na Fola – T With The Maggies
Minds Locked Shut – Christy Moore
Bloody Sunday – Cruachan
Sunday Bloody Sunday – The Wolfe Tones
Sunday Bloody Sunday – U2
Basements – Frank Waln
The Grey Fox:Main Theme – The Chieftains
Sailin’ – Jake Shimabukuro feat. Henry Kapono
Kifach Hilti – Djamel Laroussi
Vakker Natt – Hilde Hefte
Back in Stride – Frankie Beverly & Maze
I Won’t – H.E.R.
Trees On The Mountains -Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi
Filed under Albuquerque, Music, playlist
29 January 2026
One Rainy Wish – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Damned For All Time/Blood Money – Jesus Christ Superstar
So High- Dobie Gray
Iye Iye – Kotoja
Walking Down Madison – Kirsty MacColl
Angel – Sarah McLachlan
Queen of the Factory Town – Robert Brashear
Qualified – Dr. John
Om Numah Shivaya – Apache Indian
Take a Stroll Thru Your Mind – The Temptations
It’s All Over Now – Dirty Dozen Brass Band
This Little Light – Mavis Staples
Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10: No. 5, Sehr fließend – The Cleveland Orchestra & Christoph von Dohnányi
Joe Hill’s Last Will Joe Glazer S
Filed under Music, playlist, Albuquerque
28 January 2026
Most days no introduction to the playlist is provided. Today, as does every January 28, marks an exception.
About today’s playlist.
Fifty-one years ago today, my father, William H. Koenig, died in a plane crash. A private pilot, he was flying with a colleague to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to advocate for funds for the Grove City school district where they were working. My father served as the assistant superintendent.
They did not make it to the state capital. The plane went down. Both men died.
Prior to becoming a school administrator he had been a high school band director. He kept his hands in music as he career moved in a different direction. He played string bass in the pit orchestra for high school musicals and he was the first director of the hand bell choir at our church.
He also directed a community band for several years. For two years, I played baritone horn in that band.
One or another of the bands my father directed, played almost all of the songs on this playlist at some point. Many of them I played under my father’s direction.
Dad – since it fell unto your lot
That you should rise and I should not
I’ll gently rise and I’ll softly call
Good night and joy be with you
Walking. North Domingo Baca Multigenerational Center.
Unless otherwise noted, the artist performing the songs is the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Leonard Bernstein.
Light Calvary Overture – London Festival Orchestra
Semper Fidelis
The Thunderer
Washington Post
Hands Across the Sea
Radetsky March, Op. 228
Under the Double Eagle
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Stars and Stripes Forever
The British Grenadiers
Rule Bittania
The National Emblem
Rakoczy March/Hungarian March
March of the Toreadors from Carmen, Suite No. 1
Coronation March from Le Prophete
March from the Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33a
War March of the Priests from Athalie, Op, 74
Grand March from Aida
Procession of the Sardar from Two Caucasian Sketches, Op. 10
March from Symphonic Metamorphoses
Pomp and Circumstance
Scotland the Brave – The Pipes & Drums of the Royal Tank Regiment
Anchors Aweigh
Le Marseillaise
Fest March from Tanhauser
Colonel Bogey
Filed under Family, Music, Exercise, playlist, Albuquerque
27 January 2026
Ain’t I a Woman – Avery Sharpe feat. Jeri Brown, Onaje Allan Gumbs, Craig Handy, Duane Eubanks & Yoron Israel
Any Time at All – The Beatles
Heroes from Our Past – Dropkick Murphys
Rosewood Casket – Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris
La Llorona – Chavela Vargas
It Don’t Mean A Thing – Eva Cassidy
Aloha Ka Manini – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
Spirit Riders’ Journey – My Western Music
Going Back To Memphis – The Band
Simple Things – Elton John & Brandi Carlile
We Can Work It Out -Paul McCartney
The Blue Hour: No. 16, I am alone – Shara Nova & A Far Cry
Hey Jude – The Temptations
Filed under Albuquerque, Music, playlist
25 January 2026
Pangram – Jake Shimabukuro
Give Peace a Chance – John Lennon & Yoko Ono
The Creel = Paul Brady
All That You Have Is Your Soul -Tracy Chapman
The Long and Winding Road – Paul McCartney
Get Me Bodied – Beyoncé
The Rebel Girl – Joe Glazer
Wind River and You – Eliza Gilkyson
Put on Your Sunday Clothes – Gavin Creel, Taylor Trensch, Bette Midler, Will Burton & Melanie Moore
Gonna Keep On Tryin’ Till I Win Your Love- The Temptations
Into The Dark- Melissa Etheridge
Moonlight Blues – W.C. Handy
Dancin In the Mississippi Mud – Peter Ostroushko
Tití Me Preguntó – Bad Bunny
Filed under Music, playlist, Albuquerque
24 January 2026
Warren Zevon Birthday
Frank and Jesse James – Warren Zevon
Desperados Under the Eaves -Warren Zevon
I Was In The House When The House Burned Down – Warren Zevon
Mutineer – Warren Zevon
Mr. Bad Example – Warren Zevon
Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead = Warren Zevon
Searching For A Heart – Warren Zevon
Raspberry Beret = Warren Zevon
Lawyers, Guns And Money = Warren Zevon
Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner – Warren Zevon
Werewolves Of London – Warren Zevon
Searching For a Heart – Don Henley
Reconsider Me – Reckless Kelly & Steve
Poor Poor Pitiful Me- Bonnie Raitt & Jackson Browne
My Ride’s Here – Bruce Springsteen
Lawyers Guns and Money – Wallflowers
Studebaker – Jordan Zevon
Mutineer – Bob Dylan
The Wind = Your Heart – Jorge Calderon
Keep Me In Your Heart = Van Dyke Parks
Hasten Down the Wind – Linda Ronstadt
Filed under Albuquerque, Music, playlist
23 January 2026
Irene – Lead Belly
Invocation – Silkroad Ensemble & Rhiannon Giddens, feat. Pura Fé
Drop Kick Me Jesus – Ray Stevens
Out of the Blue – George Harrison
Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Pts. 1-5 – Pink Floyd
Sisters – Robert Mirabal
Go Ahead John (part two B) – Miles Davis
My Land Is a Good Land – Pete Seeger
Zarico Boogie – BeauSoleil
The Root – D’Angelo
The Drone – Joan Armatrading
World Turned Upside Down – Windborne
Filed under Albuquerque, Music, playlist
A prayer in the time of ICE
God of justice,
God for all people,
after my daily calls are made,
and my morning emails sent,
I pause to give thanks
for all in Minnesota,
and Albuquerque,
and Maine,
and places I do not know
who
mourn and weep,
pray and meditate,
organize and strategize,
march and walk,
cogitate and agitate,
disrupt and interrupt,
blow whistles and whistleblow,
boycott and purchase,
stand up and speak out,
demonstrate and advocate,
write and illustrate,
knit and paint,
draw and create,
sing and play,
resist and act in ways
beyond my limited understanding
and pale imagination
for a society, a country, a world
where everyone is welcome,
everyone is included,
everyone is loved,
diversity is cherished,
equity is achieved,
and justice flows
for each person.
Keep them safe.
Grant them strength.
Guide their feet.
Bless their efforts.
I pray in Jesus’ name.
Amen
Filed under Current Events, Human Rights, Prayer
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