Author: Lorraine Whittlesey

Lorraine Whittlesey, a former member of the Peanut Gallery for NBC TV's Howdy Doody show, is a classically trained pianist and studied T.V. and Film Scoring @ UCLA. Her commissioned works have been performed by the Baltimore Symphony and Concert Artists of Baltimore and have been premiered at Carnegie Hall. She scored and performed the original music for the Baltimore documentary "We Are Arabbers" which was filmed by Joy Lusco Kecken. Arista Hip Hop Artists "Naughty By Nature" used her music on their Album "19 Naughty 9." Her collaborators include Michael Salcman, Clarinda Harriss, and Joyce J. Scott. She wrote "Zippy the Pinhead: the Musical," based on Bill Griffith's syndicated comic strip and is in the process of adding two more acts.

by Lorraine Whittlesey

Multigenerational Music: Jesse Paris Smith and Patti Smith

Jesse Paris Smith and Patti Smith at The Noguchi Museum (Photo: Patrick McMullan Company, 2012)The subject of intergenerational performers has been dear to my heart since I learned that my maternal grandmother’s family had broadcast a live AM radio show on Saturday nights from New York City in the Thirties and Forties. I was inspired to explore the […]

Poetry and Music: Songs of Salcman

Music starts with sound and silence. As such, music and literature likely arose as a single entity. Even as the two drew apart, they maintained a continuum, causing Alphonse de Lamartine to state, “Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.” And continued to influence one another in both form and content, causing Ezra […]