Learning from Pete Seeger. By DICK CLUSTER

Dick Cluster
Mon, 31 Aug 2015 20:09:47 +0000
Translation Magic, language, music

In 1967, at the Newport Folk Festival, Pete Seeger introduced me to José Martí. This was via his version of Guantanamera (learned in turn from a Cuban adapter who had put the stanzas of Martí’s Versos Sencillos to the melody of the popular song). At Newport, Seeger sang the lyrics in Spanish, but he also spoke Martí’s lines …