ABSTRACT
In the fall of 1965, the author finished his cantata Let Us Remember, with a text by Langston Hughes. He was a poet who, along with Dylan Thomas, was a favorite of all musicians, because of his flowing style that made you want to read him aloud. Like Dylan Thomas, you always knew what he was talking about, and he wrote from his own life experiences and made you feel what it was like to be part of them. And like Jack, he was shunned by many of New York's ever-changing fashion-conscious arbiters, who were only concerned with who was in and who was out. There was a standing ovation, and the energy field created by an audience of over 1,000 rabbis with their wives from all over the country, transformed the San Francisco Opera House for the moment into a gigantic bar mitzvah, Labor Day weekend, family cookout, block party, wedding atmosphere.
