Housing the Party
Tamara and I hosted a Dean House Party last night and hung out
with some terrific people. Janet Purdy told a great story, so I sent it along
to the Dean
Blog, courtesy of Joe
Rospars:
House Party Reports
The conference call with Governor Dean, Al Gore, Tipper Gore and over 1,400 house parties across the country just ended -- see the blog post below for the play-by-play and reactions. Reports are coming in from house parties across the country. See Halley's blog for a report on hers in Boston; Britt Blaser sends the following report from New York.
I'm at a house party with Emery Davis, leader of the Orchestra to presidents from Roosevelt through Kennedy and Clinton: a man with standards.
Emery Davis, with Janet Purdy and Suzanne Frye, at a New Year for America house party
Emery is with us courtesy of Janet Purdy and Suzanne Frye, who have two great stories of their own.
Janet says: "I have a friend who is 84 and a former captain
of the polo team at Yale. He told me, 'I've voted Republican all my life.
In 2004,
I'm voting Democrat.'"
And Suzanne attended Columbia Pre-Med with Howard Dean.
A warm 'Hello' from our house party to all the others out there reading the blog. Keep contributing to push the bat!
Britt Blaser
New York for Dean
Musical Knights
Emery Davis is the noted leader of the Emery
Davis Orchestra,
a high society tradition since his father founded
the Meyer Davis Orchestra in 1912. It took me until this morning to realize
that Meyer and Emery are the same name after the remix. Emery is an elegant,
charming gentleman who epitomizes that highest of compliments,
"gentle man."
After a few minutes of delightful conversation, I understood
Emery Davis' plan for me. I'm to devote the next year of my life to make
sure he has a gig in January, '05:
Meyer Davis played his first Inaugural Ball for President
Harding, in 1921. He played all of the parties for President Franklin
D. Roosevelt. When asked "what was Roosevelt's favorite tune," Meyer,
wishing to be non political said, "Home on the Range." When
the President saw him at the next party he said" Meyer, I could
Kill you! I hate that song!" The President was kidding!
Emery played his first Inaugural Ball for President
Kennedy at the Washington Armory. He has played the Inaugurals of Johnson,
Nixon, Reagan, at the
White House for President Ford and the last two Inaugurals for President
Clinton,
playing the first one at the Arkansas Ball.
...Which explains the photo of him in front of
the White House at emerydavisorchestras.com. It seems that George
W prefers cowboy music, and besides, the Emery Davis Orchestra has
never
played
for
the Bushes
and
does
not, I
inferred, intend to in the future. So Howard Dean is Emery's best hope for
an Inaugural Ball engagement, as well as a better country.
Well, Emery, I accept your challenge! I will
do everything in my power to ensure that you are leading the celebration,
and Tamara and Suzanne and Janet and our other guests and I intend to do
our part by dancing the night away.
Josh
Koenig and Franz Hartl of MusicForAmerica represented
the young end of the musical spectrum. I'd met Franz once before, when he stopped
in the weekend Zephyr and Josh were here in July. He has a stunning statistic:
more people download music than voted in 2000. I'm pleased that Franz is enthusiastic
about my sense that the only sure way to take our country back is to instantiate
a new political party, which I've given the working title of "The Great Centrist
Party." Josh and Franz and I will flesh this out next week before Josh returns
to California.
Old Year
2003 was an amazing year for me, and most
of the amazement is the result of the connections that blogging has brought
about. Thank you for your attention to these rantings. In a year, we'll have
a new President and the beginning of an upgraded
Economic OS.
That's a promise.
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