John Lennon used to say, during the period he was writing overtly political music, that his songs were a form of journalism. Ted Hearne, a composer who was born in 1982, two years after Lennon was killed, seemingly takes a similar view. He described his “Katrina Ballads” — an expansive song cycle about Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans, and the government’s inadequate response — as a “somewhat journalistic piece.”
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