The art world's love affair with the Obamas has now widened from visual arts to music with news of the Jazz Institute of Chicago's new epic composition, "Honoring Grace: Michelle Obama.:
Though some minor flaws need to be addressed, Chicago flutist Nicole Mitchell's "Honoring Grace: Michelle Obama" emerged as a significant addition to the rapidly growing oeuvre of Obama jazz epics.
Unlike most of them, this one represented a feminist statement, in that a leading female composer attempted to view Barack Obama's ascent from Michelle Obama's perspective, as well as her own.
At certain junctures in this work, singer Dee Alexander -- assuming Michelle Obama's voice -- cried out: "How could I know?' How could she have anticipated, in other words, that the man she married would become a symbol to millions?"
Millions? How about billions. He belongs to the world now.
How long will we have to wait for Obama: The Opera and Obama: The Motion Picture?
PS: Can't we just give Will Smith the Oscar now? Doesn't seem fair to make him wait until the movie is actually made.
