San Francisco musicians set Rumsfeld's `poetic' voice to classical

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(San Francisco-AP) -- Some of Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld's media briefings, already published in the form of
existential poetry, have now been set to chamber music.
Included on the C-D produced by two San Francisco musicians is
Rumsfeld's many-layered explanation of intelligence reports, now
called "The Unknown."
A sample:
"As we know,
"There are known knowns.
"There are things we know we know.
"We also know there are known unknowns ... "
Those immortal words are now lyrics sung by soprano Elender
Wall, set to the lofty chords of composer and pianist Bryant Kong.
Kong says he's thought about setting statements by President
Bush and John Kerry to music. But he says Bush's syntax is good
only for a desk calendar and a John Kerry speech would be a long
tone poem, inducing sleep.

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Sound: Upcoming

On the Net:
Snippets of the songs can be heard at Kong's Web site,
http://www.stuffedpenguin.com


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