NYC 2022

Points of Leverage

Evening

• Always Look on the Bright Side by Monty Python ◦ A silly song about making the best of terrible things
• Still Alive by Jonathan Coulton ◦ A smug, sociopathic celebration of survival and science
• We Are Gathered 2022 by Daniel Speyer
• When I Die by Glen Raphael ◦ A light-hearted song about death
• Die Gedanken Sind Frei by Hoffmann von Fallersleben et. al. ◦ Thought is free
• One Song, Many Tyrants by Daniel Speyer

Dusk

• Somewhere to Begin ◦ by Sara Thompsen ◦ Music and Dreams aren't solutions, but they are starting points

Twilight

• First Step by Sir Terry Pratchett
• 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
• John Snow and the Broad Street Pump by Kathleen Tuthill and Daniel Speyer
• Time Wrote the Rocks by Cat Faber ◦ Truth is found in the world

Night

• Do You Realize by The Flaming Lips ◦ A surreal song of love and death
• Fritz Haber by Daniel Speyer
• Attempts Were Made by Daniel Speyer
• Momma Look Sharp ◦ by Sherman Edwards (from 1776) ◦ A young soldier faces death
• The Voicing of Fear by Daniel Speyer ◦ How much we have to lose and how little chance we have to keep it
• Bitter Wind March by Raymond Arnold ◦ A return to Bitter Wind Blown, but with determination to do something about it
• We Are Here by Daniel Speyer
• Call and Response: Defiance by Jai Dhyani (Abridged by Daniel Speyer)

Dawn

• Brighter Than Today by Raymond Arnold ◦ Our central anthem of hope, starting from the invention of fire
• Endless Lights by Raymond Arnold ◦ A song of hope, generations, stories and infinite possibilities

Morning

• Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles ◦ A light-hearted celebration of the sun
• Here and Now by Raymond Arnold ◦ A celebration of now
• I Have Seen the Tops of Clouds by Daniel Speyer ◦ The miracles of today taken in context
• An Unexpected Victory by Zvi Mowshowitz
• Move the World by Raymond Arnold ◦ A song of ambition, of gathering leverage and allies

Days to Come

• Literally Moving the World by Daniel Speyer
• 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