NYC 2016

The Story of Smallpox

Light

• Always Look on the Bright Side by Eric Idle ◦ A silly song about making the best of terrible things
• X Days of X Risk by Raymond Arnold ◦ Six (or more) ways the world could end
• Bring the Light by Alex Federici and Raymond Arnold ◦ We call out to the sun with imagery of different eras
• Gather Round by Raymond Arnold ◦ An invitation to join our campfire
• When I Die by Glen Raphael ◦ A light-hearted song about death

Twilight

• The First Victims (Of Smallpox)
• Bitter Wind Blown by Raymond Arnold ◦ A lullaby for a child that is shivering in the cold
• Chasing Patterns by Raymond Arnold ◦ Our struggle for understanding
• A Changing Mythology by Raymond Arnold
• Time Wrote the Rocks by Cat Faber ◦ Truth is found in the world
• The_Road_to_Eradication [Not Available]
• Bring the Light, Reprise ◦ Call to the sun again, with more emphasis on what it does for us

Night

• Do You Realize by The Flaming Lips ◦ A surreal song of love and death
• You Can't Save Them All by Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg
• Blowin in the Wind by Bob Dylan ◦ A catalogue of the world's problems from a vaguely hopeful perspective
• Stopping in the Woods by Robert Frost and Randall Thompson ◦ A vignette of looking into snowy woods at night
• Bitter Wind March by Raymond Arnold ◦ A return to Bitter Wind Blown, but with determination to do something about it
• A Bottomless Pit of Suffering by Raymond Arnold
• The Last Victim (Of Smallpox) by Glen Raphael
• Something Possible by Raymond Arnold
• The Man Who Lived by Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg

Dawn

• Endless Lights by Raymond Arnold ◦ A song of hope, generations, stories and infinite possibilities
• Brighter Than Today by Raymond Arnold ◦ Our central anthem of hope, starting from the invention of fire
• Seasons of Love by Johnathon Larson (from Rent) ◦ Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes...
• Here and Now by Raymond Arnold ◦ A celebration of now
• Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles ◦ A light-hearted celebration of the sun

Tomorrow

• Origin of Stories by Raymond Arnold
• Uplift by Andrew Eigel ◦ Human progress, from stone tools to space colonies
• Five Thousand Years by Raymond Arnold ◦ Looking to the far future
• The Road to Wisdom by Piet Hein