IMPORTANT: IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO STATE A HUMAN REALITY – that most of the people in the world live life in PEACE, unfortunately those that use countries, religion, race, color, creed, sex, or anything else for WAR/VIOLENCE make it hard for humanity. Let’s try our best not to focus on them, they are mentally ill and let’s appreciate the positive and caring people in our lovely world. Also, important to remember that most news media needs to share the bad in the world to protect us, it’s their investigative mission in many cases, but once again, what the media shares is not usually the big picture… happily most houses don’t burn down, planes arrive on time, people get to work on the subway, and most people stop if they hit another car and so on…. If you want to watch www.goodnewsplanet.TV, or www.youtube.com/goodnewsbroadcast, or www.pausetheworldforpeace.org, it’s available, for Life Affirming, Thought Provoking, Up-beat, not Beat up news, entertainment, and events since July 4, 1998, for over 25 years, with over 6,500+ shows and growing. Over 30% of the shows, are health and wellness.

Here once again, is a NASA PHOTO, THE BLUE MARBLE, FROM THE MOON OF MOTHER EARTH….NO BORDERS, BOUNDARIES, COUNTRIES, COLORS…WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER, OM.

Take a moment to listen to our dear friend David Ippolito, www.thatguitarman.com sing for Peace and for us to imagine life as ONE: https://youtu.be/_FrCKM_SN2c?si=raR3HRumFKJ5wuLq

So today, let’s think about how we can help those in the world who are mentally ill to see life differently, enough for them to live in Peace, and for each one of us to live our lives in Peace, as that is where it all begins… and let’s do it NOW… NOW spelled backward is WON, we WIN when we live in the NOW.

A few updates:

1.   www.pausetheworldforpeace.org from Times Square, 6-Hour LIVE SOLAR BROADCAST is almost finished being edited. Stay Tuned.

2.  Woodstock Forever: Peace, Love & HOPE our movie starting with the 20th Anniversary of Woodstock IN 1989 with Richie Havens is in its final stage. www.woodstockforever.com NOTE: Richie Havens said to me, in 1989, when we did Woodstock, 20th Anniversary, that 10% of the World was violent. In todays population of 8 billion, that would mean 800 million are violent, leaving 7.2 billion at Peace. Lets celebrate the 7.2 billion who live in Peace.

3.  Michel Pascal and Juliana Klinkert, from OMMM and Amity Foundation, in California have had great success with helping prisoners return to society, with over 90% not needing to return back to prison. Here is Michel giving a Medication Class at the Rubin Museum on 10/19/23, it is on my FACEBOOK LIVE PAUL SLADKUS, we will edit with opening and closing shortly, and put on www.goodnewsplanet.TV, www.youtube.com/goodnewsbroadcast and www.pausetheworldforpeace.org. Here is the Facebook Links: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1045511026766037&id=526380391&mibextid=Nif5oz and https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3515051785475379&id=526380391&mibextid=Nif5oz where Michel answers some questions.

4.  Quinn Lemley, is performing her Rita Hayworth Show at Don’t Tell Mama on Monday 10/23/23, great show.

5.  Emergence – At Pershing Square Signature Center, NY..42nd Street, is a Patrick Olson & Performers Brilliant Show, opening this week – Check it out, as “ THINGS ARE NOT AS THEY SEEM

6. Villaggio Coldirettti Sustainability Food Event in Rome last week is being edited, it’s on my FACEBOOK LIVE PAUL SLADKUS PAGE now, it was a very special event. 

7.  INTERNS & VOLUNTEERS NEEDED ASAP, PRODUCTION, FUNDRAISING FOR EARTH & WATER DAY APRIL 22, 2024 IN TIMES SQUARE…

Lastly or firstly, here are the infamous words to the song IMAGINE,

LET’S LIVE AND PROMOTE IT and PRAY THAT 

“MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH”

Imagine there’s no heaven

It’s easy if you try

No hell below us

Above us, only sky

Imagine all the people

Livin’ for today

Imagine there’s no countries

It isn’t hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion, too

Imagine all the people

Livin’ life in peace

You may say I’m a dreamer

But I’m not the only one

I hope someday you’ll join us

And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions

I wonder if you can

No need for greed or hunger

A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people

Sharing all the world

You may say I’m a dreamer

But I’m not the only one

I hope someday you’ll join us

And the world will live as one

Stay Well and do good for others… as that is what life is about, taking care of yourself applies.  Keep HOPE IN YOUR HEART AND ACTIONS…THAT THE STRESSES THAT WE ARE LIVING WITH WILL SUBSIDE, PRAY AND LOVE.

Respectfully Submitted

Reverend Paul Sladkus & Team 

Founder

Good News Corporation, a nonprofit

www.pausetheworldforpeace.org

212 647 1212 Cell. 917 687 1790

New York & Montauk, New York

LET’S GROW TOGETHER. GOOD NEWS MOTTO: ALL WE ARE IS WHAT WE ARE WITH EACH OTHER. ZEAL

For more information contact: 

Reverend Paul Sladkus, All Faiths and Spiritual 212 647 1212

New York, NY, Montauk, NY

PS – SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR FRIENDS AND MEMBERS: Looking for a vacation rental, SHORT TERM, in Montauk, here is our listing https://goodnewsplanet.com/montauk-manor-rental-suite-403-paul-sladkus/ call me. Paul 917 687 1790

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When it comes to our planet and how we treat it, we often neglect how essential its well-being is to our existence.

 As climate change and the myriad of underlying issues become a mounting discussion in households

worldwide, the need for people to voice their concerns has arisen. Dear Mama Earth brings together

artist Toussaint Liberator and producer Brian McKenna to translate discussion about climate change into musical terms.

     Combining reggae with influences of both classic R&B and soul, Dear Mama Earth is a timely call to action that transcends

 languages and stands out equally for its lyrical poeticism and enchanting music. Herein McKenna fuses his vast talents

with Toussaint’s equally robust and silky smooth voice plus performances by some of NYC’s hottest young musicians.

Together Toussaint and McKenna have created a powerful and essential exposé about Earth’s climate with positive,

driving musical lines that remind listeners that there is still time to rectify the global climate crisis.

To help support change now, buy the album here — 10% of all album profits will be donated to the Sierra Club.

For more information about Dear Mama Earth, please visit dearmamaearth.org.

Upcoming Tour Dates: 

DME headlines Earth Day NYC ’13
April 21st, 4:30pm to 6pm
Free public concert, Union Square North

DME with Majora Carter eco-event at MIST Harlem
May 18th, 10pm to 12:30am
Purchase Tickets at www.myimagestudios.com.

Links:

Website

Facebook

Twitter

Soundcloud

Youtube

EARTH DAY PROGRAM NOTES:

Dear Mama Earth is an eco-conscious suite of Reggae & Soul music. Written and performed by artist Toussaint Liberator and producer Brian McKenna, DME is a call to action — to save our planet. Featuring NYC’s hottest young musicians and DJs as well as samples contributed by maestro Galt MacDermot, this cutting-edge musical adventure is not to be missed! www.dearmamaearth.org

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Ask Your Mama Returns to New York in Special Collaboration with
Harlem’s Apollo Theater and Manhattan School of Music,
March 23, 2013

Original Cast Including Jessye Norman and The Roots to Perform with
Manhattan School of Music Chamber Sinfonia Under the Direction of George Manahan

Jazz Vocalist Nnenna Freelon Joins the Cast

New York, NY, August 9, 2012—The Apollo Theater and Manhattan School of Music will join forces to present Ask Your Mama, a 90-minute sonic tapestry of music, film, and spoken word by EmmyAward- winning composer Laura Karpman based on Langston Hughes’s “Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz” that bursts the boundaries of time, place, and verbal expression to trace the currents and tributaries of cultural diasporas. The performance will take place at Harlem’s famed Apollo Theater on March 23, 2013, and will feature the Manhattan School of Music Chamber Sinfonia conducted by George Manahan, who also conducted the sold-out world premiere at Carnegie Hall and a subsequent performance at the Hollywood Bowl. Soprano Jessye Norman will lead an all-star cast that includes The Roots with ?uestlove, Black Thought, and Nnenna Freelon.

Langston Hughes conceived his 1961 epic “Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz” as an interdisciplinary creation, including in the margins suggestions for types of music including hot jazz, German lieder, cha-cha, patriotic songs, post-bop, and Middle Eastern, as well as specific songs like “When the Saints Go Marching In” and “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” all of which he meant to accompany his words. Karpman’s composition brings these imaginings to life, combining Hughes’ language with sounds that come together to evoke the turbulent flux and flow of American cultural life, making the fifty-year old text startlingly current. Sold out debut performances of the work at Carnegie Hall in 2009 were a critical success.
Tickets are $35, $55, $75 and $125 (VIP Tickets) and will go on sale Monday, Nov 19th at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster.

About the Apollo Theater
The Apollo is a national treasure that has had significant impact on the development of American culture and its popularity around the world. Since introducing the first Amateur Night contests in 1934, the Apollo Theater has played a major role in cultivating artists and in the emergence of innovative musical genres including jazz, swing, bebop, R&B, gospel, blues, soul, and hip-hop. Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Sammy Davis, Jr., James Brown, Michael Jackson, Bill Cosby, Gladys Knight, Luther Vandross, D’Angelo, Lauryn Hill, and countless others began their road to stardom on the Apollo’s stage. The Apollo Theater’s new artistic vision builds on its legacy. New Apollo programming has music as its core, driving large scale and more intimate music, dance, and theater presentations. The Apollo will continue to present historically relevant presentations, as well as more forward-looking, contemporary work. Based on its cultural significance and architecture, the Apollo Theater received state and city landmark designation in 1983 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. For more information, visit www.apollotheater.org.

About Manhattan School of Music Chamber Sinfonia
The Manhattan School of Music Chamber Sinfonia was created as a flagship ensemble for students in its Orchestral Performance (OP) Program and also includes students from the Pinchas Zukerman Performance Program as well as other advanced instrumentalists. The ensemble, under the music direction of George Manahan, has been conducted by noted guest conductors including Pierre Boulez, Pinchas Zukerman, Raymond Leppard, and Paul Gemignani, among many others. The Chamber Sinfonia, led by Philippe Entremont, participated in Les concerts du cloître in Nice at the invitation of the Académie Internationale d’Eté in August 2011. The OP Program, established in 1991 as the first accredited degree program of its kind, seeks to nourish musicians of the highest artistic caliber and provides intensive preparation for careers as orchestral musicians. The advanced curriculum features special programs such as the Orpheus Institute and MSM’s Center for Music Entrepreneurship; master classes with principal players from world renowned orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, and Orchestre National de France; and vigorous training in audition preparation.

About Manhattan School of Music
Manhattan School of Music is a preeminent international conservatory, granting Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees. Established in 1918 by pianist and philanthropist Janet Daniels Schenck, the School is dedicated to the personal, artistic, and intellectual development of its students, who range from the precollege through the postgraduate level. Offering both classical and jazz training, Manhattan School of Music trains students in performance and composition and provides a core curriculum in music theory, music history, and the humanities. Students come from all over the world, drawn by a rigorous program that reflects the highest standards of musical heritage, and by the faculty, which includes some of the world’s best-known artists. Manhattan School of Music contributes to the city’s musical life through an active community outreach program and with concerts and performances that are recognized as some of the finest events in New York’s musical calendar. Manhattan School of Music’s alumni are active in every aspect of contemporary musical life. Many are among the most distinguished artists performing in concert halls, opera houses, and on jazz stages throughout the world today.

About Laura Karpman
Four-time Emmy Award-winning composer Laura Karpman was raised on bebop and Beethoven, and trained at The Juilliard School, where she played jazz and scatted in bars and studied with Milton Babbitt. Her music has been performed by the Los Angeles and Czech Philharmonics; Orchestra of St. Luke’s; Houston, National, Detroit, and Prague Symphonies; and American Composers Orchestra, to name only a few. Her recent multi-media work Ask Your Mama, written for Jessye Norman and The Roots, premiered to a sold-out house at Carnegie Hall and at the Hollywood Bowl. She has also written scores for Steven Spielberg, PBS, Smithsonian, documentarian Barbara Koppel, the Chinese Government (for which she received an Annie Award nomination), and videogame music for Sony Online Entertainment, where she was a resident orchestral composer. Karpman has received the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Ives Fellowship and several ASCAP and Meet the Composer awards. She has had residencies at Tanglewood and the MacDowell Colony. A member of the UCLA faculty and recently a guest composer of The Juilliard Composition Forum, she will be a visiting professor for the Valencia Spain campus of Berklee College of Music program this fall. Recent and upcoming premieres include Hidden World of Girls, a collaboration with NPR’s Kitchen Sisters for the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and conductor Marin Alsop; Now All Set, honoring Milton Babbitt; Different Lanes for string quartet and 2 iPads as well as an orchestral version; a work for David Krakauer and orchestra; and a large orchestral and vocal work in collaboration with the New York Times columnist Gail Collins.

Contact:

For the Apollo Theater:
Nina Flowers
Nina.Flowers@apollotheater.org
212-531-5334

Julia Kirchhausen/Ariel Hudes
JKirchhausen / AHudes @resnicowschroeder.com
212-671-5161 /  212-671-5169

For Manhattan School of Music:
Debra Kinzler
dkinzler@msmnyc.edu
917-493-4469

For Ask Your Mama &
Laura Karpman:
Elizabeth Dworkin
Elizabeth@dworkincompany.com
914-244-3803

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