Two supporters of Occupy Atlanta
showed up at my church last Sunday. Now, I should say--they didn't come
to worship. They showed up just as I was locking the doors to go home,
slightly before two.
While it's hard to imagine many pop artists signing up to
write a song cycle based on the history of classical music, for
Amos—whom Deutsche Grammophon approached with this idea—the project
seems almost inevitable.
In my state of South Carolina, we have a long history of not wanting anybody to tell us what to do with our land, our possessions, or our money. This has created a sense of fierce independence, as history bears out.