Love At Last

Week of January 7, 2023

Join Lara for a two-part presentation on Sunday and Thursday evenings, as she shares music and stories from this powerful new collection, and invites RLP guests to participate in her national initiative I Believe, launched in 2022 as an NPR Morning Edition project to create a “Credo” for our own time and a vision of our future by voicing the beliefs that can, after all and despite everything, unite us in a vision of shared humanity and a greater good.

 

Billboard chart-topping pianist, cultural catalyst and media personality Lara Downes, called “a musical ray of hope” by NBC News, brings to the Ranch a preview of her upcoming solo album Love At Last, a lyrical collection of music exploring themes of renewal, rebirth, and redemption, by composers who span continents, cultures, and centuries, united in a vision of shared humanity, the possibility of peace and compassion, and the everlasting power of love. The album is inspired by this poem from the 19th century Ukrainian poet Shaul Tchernichovsky:

Laugh at all my dreams, my dearest
Laugh and I repeat anew
That I still believe in man
As I still believe in you.
Let the time be dark with hatred
I believe in years beyond
Love at last shall bind the peoples
In an everlasting bond

MUSIC LINK: Lara Downes: Laugh At All My Dreams
https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1366435915%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-KQbcXX42zAo&color=%23562635&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=false
https://soundcloud.com/laradownes/03-laugh-at-all-my-dreams/s-KQbcXX42zAo

NPR Tiny Desk Concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwSBAS2Pp-U 

New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/24/arts/music/lara-downes-scott-joplin-piano.html

Learn more at LaraDownes.com.