Good morning. Today is Friday. We’ll take a look at last night’s fierce debate between three candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for governor. We’ll also explore a large-scale musical that was cut during a radio broadcast a long time ago. It will be performed tonight, scheduled for June 13.
“Sorry, I’m giving an answer,” Hochul said at one point as Suozzi tried to interrupt her.
“Governor? Governor? Governor?” Suozzi impatiently asked at another point. He is trying to force Hochul to see his way after she criticized him for praising Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law that forbids teachers from providing guidance on gender identity or sexual orientation – a claim. review that he withdrew. Hochul was still glued to the camera.
Things continued to happen when Suozzi insisted that she spent the Covid relief money “irresponsibly”. Williams complained that Hochul was making money for a stadium for the Buffalo Bills but not to address gun violence. Suozzi attacked Hochul for getting the National Rifle Association endorsement a decade ago when she was in Congress.
“She said she evolved,” says Suozzi. “The only thing that’s evolved is the governor’s political ambitions.”
When Hochul said she wouldn’t raise taxes, Williams countered that “it’s a Republican line to protect wealthy donors.”
This is the second time the three candidates have faced off against each other. The first time they appeared together, on June 7, neither Suozzi nor Williams seem to change the direction of the race. My colleague Nicholas Fandos writes that there were signs after Thursday’s encounter that Hochul was bruised, but there was little indication that Suozzi or Williams had changed the dynamics of a race going into last leg. Early voting begins on Saturday and will run until June 26, two days before the primary vote.
Hochul, who has raised more than $30 million for the campaign — far more than Suozzi or Williams — has defended her administration’s many efforts in the process. She touted her partnership with Mayor Eric Adams about “giving people a sense of security” and protecting people with mental health issues.
But Suozzi did not give in. “We heard the governor’s speech about, ‘we’re spending money on this, we’re going to get there,’ he said. “Under this management, they are no more secure.”
Suozzi threw his hat into the ring as a centrist was determined to cut crime and taxes, and on Thursday he said he would cut state income taxes by 10%. Williams repeatedly tried to tie Hochul to former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who chose her as lieutenant colonel governor in 2015 and whom she replaced when he resigned last year.
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After getting stuck between a subway car and a platform, a passenger died
Maybe your briefcase or your wallet got stuck when the door closed in the subway car you just sped into. Or maybe your foot spins just enough to get caught between the train and the platform as you’re getting off. For that terrifying second as you pull your foot out of the gap or yank your briefcase or purse into the train, you think about the possible nightmare.
That nightmare appeared to have hit Brooklyn late Wednesday night when, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said, a subway rider gets stuck in the middle of a car of a Q train and an exposed platform at a station and fell onto the tracks. The passenger, identified as Marcus Bryant, 37, was pronounced dead shortly after midnight on Thursday.
Police officials said early Thursday that eyewitness accounts suggested that Bryant’s clothes were caught in the door as he stepped off the train at the Avenue M station in Midwood, Brooklyn. But Richard Davey, president of New York City Transit – the MTA division that oversees the subway – later contradicted those accounts and police said they would postpone the MTA.
Davey said Bryant was “stuck between the train and the platform” and fell onto the tracks. “We don’t believe this was a door incident,” Davey told a news conference. Police said the train dragged Bryant along the platform until he fell onto the tracks; It is unclear whether a second train entering the station collided with Bryant.
The MTA said the cameras at the station were active at the time. But the agency declined to release the images because the investigation is still ongoing.
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In the prediction of June 13
Late one Friday night in May 1937, during the heyday of pre-registered network radio, the broadcast of a concert from Cincinnati came to an unexpected end. The reason is not due to technical difficulties. “We’re really sorry,” a low-pitched announcer said when NBC cut him in, “but due to prior commitments, we weren’t able to stay in the final moments of this stellar performance.”
“No one can explain why,” said Liz PlayerFounding executive director and artistic director of the Harlem Chamber Players, will present a performance of the work was cut at Riverside Church tonight in anticipation of the holiday June ten. “There are those who surmise that there must have been some racist outcry” from listeners because the piece – “The Or Order of Moses” – was written by a Black composer. “But there is no proof,” she told me. “Those are just suspicions.”
The composer is R. Nathaniel Dett, who Author and critic Joseph Horowitz described is part of the “foundation of American classical music that quietly coexists with the glitz” of white conductors like Arturo Toscanini and star performers like Vladimir Horowitz.
Why the broadcast from Cincinnati’s May Festival ended the way it did may still be a mystery. James Conlonmusic director of Cincinnati Symphony from 1979 to 2016, told me that “there seems to be no other explanation” than complaints that Dett was black. But like Player, Conlon says there is “no precise authority” for that conclusion.
Tammy Kernodle, a musicologist who served as associate editor of the Encyclopedia of African American Music, was familiar with the score but not the story that the broadcast was cut because of listener objections. . “It’s hard for me to believe it, and I’ll tell you why,” she told me. “There was too much music by Black composers and Black musicians on the radio in the 1930s.” And it is possible that the show in Cincinnati was late, something that cannot be ignored in the world of time-conscious broadcasting.
Players note that Dett’s oratorio tells the biblical story of Moses leading the Jews out of Egypt after a series of plagues. “I hope this will be a harbinger of our own emergence from the pandemic,” she told me. “I love that Dett takes the soul of ‘Go Down, Moses’, which is also a message of Negro liberation, and weaves it throughout the oratorio.”
Dear Diary:
I was walking downstairs on the building’s service elevator with Mike, the elevator operator.
Suddenly, he stopped at one of the lower floors.
When the door opened, he held out his hand.
An elderly woman was standing there with her hands in her hands, holding a jar that she couldn’t seem to open.
Mike took the vial, opened it, and handed it back with a smile.
“Thanks,” she said.
He closed the door and we continued down.
– Anne Oshman
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