The Big Ride - Day 6, Coventry, RI to Framingham, MA (66 miles)
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David YangThe rain has stopped and it was glorious today. I wish I could say the same about my legs.
Less than a week to go for NCMF 2025, and I have fresh parts in front of me of the commissioned work “Beat Chick: Tunes for Hettie Jones” for string quartet, jazz vocalist, and digital beats, by our 2025 Composer-in-Residence, Guthrie Ramsey. Six poems he has set to music, by trailblazing poet and his late mother-in-law, Hettie Jones (New York Times: Profile “Hettie Jones, Poet and Author Who Nurtured the Beats”). The piece will be sung by Guthrie’s daughter (who also happens to be Hettie’s granddaughter), Bridget Ramsey.
Hettie Jones was born almost the same year as my mom. In a mid-century act of love and defiance, these two fearless Brooklyn Jews married a man of another race and went on to forge impressive careers in a man’s world. As the father of two daughters, I’m full of gratitude for the work and sacrifices of this generation of women. It can’t have been easy. I hope we do Hettie proud this summer, wherever she is.
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David YangThe rain has stopped and it was glorious today. I wish I could say the same about my legs.
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David YangThe exquisite subtlety with which this driver demonstrated nuanced inflections of the F-bomb was deeply moving.
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David YangLooking out your window today, perhaps sipping a steaming mug of hot chocolate, some of you may have noticed that it rained.
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