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Jon Rosen says
Tom is alive today at 78 (a truly good speed for a vinyl record ;-). My theatre group is doing Tomfoolery, the show based on his music in San Jose in October (just before the 2006 elections). Everyone is invited to attend. We do almost all the well-known songs (Masochism Tango, National Brotherhood Week, The Vatican Rag, The Elements, New Math, Poisoning Pigeons, etc.) and a few you may not have heard of before! Hope you can make it to the Bay Area in October.
By the way, I expect Tom would truly be upset to be described as a “folksinger”. He was a musical comic and satirist, but he lampooned the entire folksong genre (along with a lot of other genres, attitudes and policies).
Susan Getgood says
Thanks for the note. Regardless of what we call him, I’d hope that Tom would be glad that there are still many of us who know that “first you get down on your knees, fiddle with your rosaries,” and that “the breakfast garbage you throw into the bay, they drink at lunch in San Jose.”
Yours in poisoning pigeons in the park.