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breaks Sir Ivan’s

streaming record on

Spotify – surpassing his

career-launching hit

“Imagine!”

DOWNLOAD/STREAM ON ALL PLATFORMS

Official Music Video for “Love Is All Around”

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Listen to “Ukrainian Church Choir, Service, Metropolitan Opera Singing Ukrainian Anthem, Andre Rois Performing Ukrainian Song with Ukrainian and Russia” on Spreaker.

Metropolitan Opera singing National Anthem if the Ukraine…
Listen to “Ukrainian Church Choir, Service, Metropolitan Opera Singing Ukrainian Anthem, Andre Rois Performing Ukrainian Song with Ukrainian and Russia” on Spreaker.

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Sunday, June 25th 2017

Fifty years ago, on June 25, 1967, the Beatles introduced their iconic hit “All You Need is Love” in a live performance during the world’s first global satellite broadcast. The song quickly became the anthem for San Francisco’s Summer of Love. Now, on the evening of June 25th, the international Playing For Change band salutes the 50th Anniversary with a global sing-a-long of “All You Need Is Love.” The band features performers from 13 countries representing 5 continents. The sing-a-long will take place at 8:50 pm (Pacific Time) – 11:50 pm (Eastern Time.) The audience attending the concert and all the people tuning into the “All You Need” is Love live broadcast will join in the sing-a-long Raising Their Voices to Spread the Timeless Message of Love around the world creating a international Song Around The World experience. Please tune into the live broadcast at www.peacechannel.com to participate in the “All You Need is Love” sing-a-long. You are also invited to experience the entire Playing For Change Band concert which begins at 8:00 pm (Pacific Time) – 11:00 pm (Eastern Time.) The live broadcast is produced by Unity Foundation www.unityfoundation.org in association with PeaceDay365. Let’s all sing together and spread the vibration of love around the world. Because Love is needed now more than ever.

UPCOMING BROADCAST
September 21, Peace Day

The June 25th “All You Need is Love” live broadcast will introduce people around the world to the annual Peace Day Global Broadcast Celebrating the United Nations International Day of Peace on September 21st. The broadcast can be viewed on www.peacechannel.com The Peace Day Global Broadcast is produced by Unity Foundation, a non-profit organization with a 40 year history of promoting peace, cooperation and unity throughout the world.

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That is the background of the whole record, I mean if you have to come up with a philosophical ground, that is “Ring the bells that still can ring.” It’s no excuse… the dismal situation.. and the future is no excuse for an abdication of your own personal responsibilities towards yourself and your job and your love. “Ring the bells that still can ring”: they’re few and far between but you can find them. “Forget your perfect offering”, that is the hang-up, that you’re gonna work this thing out. Because we confuse this idea and we’ve forgotten the central myth of our culture which is the expulsion from the garden of Eden. This situation does not admit of solution or perfection. This is not the place where you make things perfect, neither in your marriage, nor in your work, nor anything, nor your love of God, nor your love of family or country. The thing is imperfect. And worse, there is a crack in everything that you can put together, physical objects, mental objects, constructions of any kind. But that’s where the light gets in, and that’s where the resurrection is and that’s where the return, that’s where the repentance is. It is with the confrontation, with the brokenness of things.
– from Diamonds in the Line
Howard Jacobson discussed this lyric recently in the Independent:

Those great lines from the song “Anthem”. Ring the bells etc. Forget your perfect offering. There’s a crack – a crack in everything.

It’s like a reprimand to people of my temperament – life’s complainants, eroticists of disappointment, lovers only of what’s flawless and overwrought. Could he be singing this to me? You expect too much, mister. You are too unforgiving. Not everything works out, not everything is great, and not everyone must like what you like. I’ve been taught this lesson before. I remember reading an essay by the novelist Mario Vargas Llosa in which he argues for the necessity of vulgarity in serious literature. Thomas Hardy said a writer needed to be imperfectly grammatical some of the time. Mailer told an audience that not everybody wanted to ride in a Lamborghini. And now here’s Leonard Cohen saying the same thing. Forget your perfect offering. There’s a crack…

And then comes another, still more wonderful, clinching line – “That’s how the light gets in.” Savour that! At a stroke, weakness becomes strength and fault becomes virtue. I feel as though original sin has just been re-explained to me. There was no fall. We were born flawed. Flawed is how we were designed to be. Which means we don’t need redeeming after all. Light? Why go searching for light? The light already shines from us. It got in through our failings.

The lyrics:

The birds they sang at the break of day
Start again I heard them say
Don’t dwell on what has passed away
or what is yet to be.

Ah the wars they will be fought again
The holy dove she will be caught again
bought and sold and bought again
the dove is never free.

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.

We asked for signs the signs were sent:
the birth betrayed the marriage spent
Yeah the widowhood of every government –
signs for all to see.

I can’t run no more with that lawless crowd
while the killers in high places say their prayers out loud.
But they’ve summoned, they’ve summoned up a thundercloud
and they’re going to hear from me.

Ring the bells that still can ring …

You can add up the parts but you won’t have the sum
You can strike up the march, there is no drum
Every heart, every heart to love will come
but like a refugee.

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.

There’s a superb version on YouTube, sung by Perla Batalla & Julie Christensen in 2004:

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Peace and Love,
Sir Ivan
Recording Artist Sir Ivan Releases New Anthem and Makes $100,000 Donation in Support of Anti-Bullying Efforts

Sir Ivan – Kiss All The Bullies Goodbye [feat. Taylor Dayne] (Paul Oakenfold Original Mix)
www.SirIvan.com

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NEW YORK — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Deputy Director Lori L. Scialabba will administer the Oath of Allegiance to America’s newest citizens, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Director & CEO Thomas P. Campbell, during a special naturalization ceremony at the Museum on Tuesday, July 22, 2014 at 10:00 a.m.

USCIS New York District Director Phyllis Coven will open the ceremony followed by the National Anthem performed by the Gospel for Teens Choir and welcoming remarks from New York City Council Member Carlos Menchaca. USCIS Deputy Director Scialabba will provide congratulatory remarks. Mr. Campbell will lead the Pledge of Allegiance and deliver the keynote address to the new citizens and guests.

The 75 citizenship candidates originate from the following 42 countries: Albania (2), Antigua-Barbuda, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Brazil (3), Burundi, Canada, Cape Verde, People’s Republic of China, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Dominican Republic (13), Ecuador (2), France (4), Germany, Ghana (2), Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Honduras, India (3), Ireland, Israel (2), Italy, Jamaica (4), Kosovo (2), Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco(2), Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Russia, Rwanda, South Korea, St. Kitts-Nevis, Taiwan, Turkey (3), United Kingdom (3), Uruguay (2), and Yemen.

USCIS encourages new citizens and guests to share their naturalization ceremony experiences and photos through social media, using the hashtag #newUScitizen on Twitter.

During the last decade, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) welcomed more than 6.6 million naturalized citizens. For more information about USCIS and its programs, please visit www.uscis.gov or follow us on Twitter (@uscis or @USCISMediaVT), YouTube (/uscis) and the USCIS blog The Beacon.

WHO: Lori L. Scialabba, USCIS Deputy Director
Phyllis Coven, USCIS District Director New York
Carlos Menchaca, New York City Council Member
Thomas P. Campbell, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Director and CEO (citizenship candidate)
75 Citizenship Candidates

WHEN: Tuesday, July 22, 2014, 10 a.m.
WHERE: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, NY, NY 10028-0198

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HISTORY OF EARTH ANTHEM VERSE
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EARTH ANTHEM
The Earth Verse sung to the melody of The Star Spangled Banner, words by Stephen Longfellow Fiske

The Evolution of a Song-A Brief History

The Star Spangled Banner was written as a poem by Francis Scott Key on the deck of a small boat September 14, 1814, as he observed the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British during the War of 1812. After having already burned Washington, D.C. the British entered the harbor intent on sacking Baltimore. Inspired by the heroic American stand which turned back the powerful British Fleet, and by the sight of the American flag still flying after a day and night of heavy rocket exchange, Key jotted down some lines on an envelope and wrote out the verses when he later returned to shore. It was published the very next day on a handbill entitled, Defense of Ft. McHenry, and quickly met with wide public approval.

The melody to which the stanzas were written was that of an English drinking song, To Anacreon In Heaven. Anacreon was the convivial Greek poet whose verses celebrated love and wine, and who became the patron saint of The Anacreontic Society, a gentlemen’s club, whose enthusiastic and bawdy meetings had gained quite a reputation, and from whence the song became popular. To Anacreon In Heaven was sung in the taverns of Colonial America, and by 1814 was an American standby. To that tune, in 1798, Tom Paine had written a patriotic verse,Adams and Liberty, which became well known around the young nation.

But when Francis Scott Key’s verses were tacked on the doors of Baltimore’s taverns, his song was heartfully sung as a celebration of victory in war and national pride. As the popularity of Key’s song grew, the original Anacreontic song, Paine’s version, and other attempts to write verses (including one by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes), were forgotten and Key’s most popular verse, The Star Spangled Banner, became the favorite national song. In 1931, Congress officially designated it as the United States National Anthem.

Now, in the ongoing folk tradition of adding new verses to old songs, visionary singer, songwriter Stephen Longfellow Fiske brings the evolution of the song to the global perspective of the 21st century, blending democratic ideals, peace, and environmental harmony with his Earth Anthem.

A descendant of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Stephen is a poet in his own right, and has produced nine albums of his music. His most recent CD, Earth Anthem, How Do You Want Your World? features Stephen’s acapella/string arrangement of Earth Anthem, as well as ten other songs of peace, environmental, spiritual and social concerns. The CD has been getting rave reviews and is being well recieved by the buying public. Stephen and his partners are currently building Earth Anthem Enterprises to help promote Earth Anthem and create a socially responsible business serving a sustainable future.

Earth Anthem Video
“In Stephen’s new CD, he sings about what’s universally important for our planet and all people, strong voice, great musicality, combined with splendid arrangements. I give this CD my highest recommendation”
– Ed Begley, Jr. (actor, environmentalist)

“Stephen’s songs go beyond inspiration to act as a wise and passionate guide to the path and ways of peace. Stephen sings of a new way and a new day for humanity”
– Kristin Norton (Coalition for World Peace)

“The definitive songbook for the 21st century peace movement, heartfelt tunes, powerful honest lyrics crying out for justice, tolerance, and peace. Earth Anthem will join ‘This Land Is Your Land’ in America’s roster of incredible folk songs.”
– Stephen Rodhe (attorney at law)

” … an affirmation of planetary healing. I feel as though I can hear the earth saying, Thank you!.”
– Nancy Pearlman (trustee, Cal State University)

“…a wonderful reminder of our interconnectedness, a great collection of songs from a great human being and talented artist.
– Rev. Dr. David W. Randle

“Listen for yourself and then think about giving someone the gift of ‘Earth Anthem’. Make a difference in shaping the new world by turning someone onto the real evolutionary, revolutionary music.”
– Alan Hutner and Elizabeth Rose (hosts, Transitions Radio Magazine, Santa Fe, New Mexico)

To Purchase:
The Holiday Gift Package Set (2 CDs, Book & Poster):
Available by Check or Money Order ONLY:
Mail Check or Money Order payable to “Stephen L. Fisker” in the Amount of $50.00.
(Includes Shipping and Handling & Sales Tax)
Please Note which 2 CDs you would want.
Mail To:
Fiske Music/Publications
635 California Ave., Venice, CA 90291, USA
Phone: 310-396-8205
Email: stephen@stephenfiskemusic.com

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