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"Runaround Sue," is a song performed at the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company's presentation of "Rock 'n' Roll, the Opposites, & Our Greatest Hopes--A Celebration!"--August 8, 2010 by Kevin Fennell and Bennett Cooperman, with Timothy Lynch, Christopher Balchin


Musicians: Richard X. Heyman, drums; Alan Shapiro, keyboard; Sally Ross, guitar; Allan Michael, bass; Barbara Allen, flute & percussion

Why has Rock 'n' Roll affected people so much? Singing and commenting on songs from the '50s and '60s to the present, the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Co. illustrates these sentences from a lesson, poet, critic, and founder of Aesthetic Realism, Eli Siegel gave to a rock musician. He said: "Rock 'n' roll has the answer to people's problem of, on the one hand, wanting to be very private and sad, and on the other, wanting to have something like sunlight and public force. Every person has to make a one of the most secret thing in him and the most public thing. Rock 'n' roll shows it can be done."

Videography: Robert Murphy

To find out more, read “What Music Means – and Our Hopes!” in which Aesthetic Realism Chairman of Education Ellen Reiss writes about The Rolling Stones and their rock classic “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.” http://www.aestheticrealism.net/tro/what-music-means-and-our-hopes.html

Singer Kevin Fennell writes on the opposites of “Simplicity and Complexity in The Temptations’ My Girl, in Love, and in me.” http://www.aestheticrealism.net/arfdntennessee/My_Girl_KF.htm

See Eli Siegel’s definitive essay, “The World, as Such, Is Present in Jazz” http://www.aestheticrealism.net/essays/the-world-as-such-is-present-in-jazz.html

And here is the website of the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company: http://www.aestheticrealismtheatreco.org/index.html