News

May 2006:

• "The Sound of History: Music tells stories that textbooks ignore" by Dave Elsila, May 2006, Allegro Magazine, publication of Associated Musicians of Greater New York, Local 802, American Federation of Musicians AFL-CIO.

March 2006:

• "Forgotten: Labor history as opera" by Michael G. Matejka, CD Review, March 2006, Bloomington and Normal Trades and Labor Assembly.

November 2005:

• Streaming Audio, November 2005: "Radio, Guns and Money" by Steve Jones, sung by Michael Carluccio, Davis Gloff, and Larry Schrock on the Detroit Cast Recording of "Forgotten". Featured song on "Labor Notes Streaming Song Of The Month".

September 2005:

• "Mysterious murder is not 'Forgotten'" Article by Vivian DeGain, Photos 1 and 2 by Rosh Sillars, September 9, 2005, Special to the Daily Tribune, Royal Oak Daily Tribune.

• Radio Interview, September 8, 2005: Michigan Morning Edition WUOM 91.7 FM. Audio.

• "More than a memory: Jazz/blues opera 'Forgotten' tells story of activist minister in song" by K. Michelle Moran, September 7, 2005 C and G News.

• "Stepping into gear: A murder, a shipwreck and the postindustrial street realism of garbage - the Detroit theater season begins" by Anita Schmaltz, September 7, 2005 Detroit Metro Times.

• "Local actor in play with labor theme" Friday, September 2, 2005 The Flint Journal.

• Radio Interview, Monday, September 5, 2005, Labor Day: Shawn Ellis interviewed Steve Jones on WPON 1460 AM.

• "Labor, religion and a mysterious death: Actors at church to relive debate" by David Crumm, Friday, September 2, 2005 Detroit Free Press.

• "Workers, Tycoons, and Culture" by Stuart Ferguson, Friday, September 2, 2005, Wall Street Journal, Weekend Journal, W2.

August 2005:

• Radio Interview, Sunday, August 21, 7-10 pm: W. Kim Heron interviewed Steve Jones and Bill Meyer, music director for "Forgotten" on WDET 101.9 FM.

July 2005:

• Editorial Review of "Forgotten" by Herb Gunn in The Record, July/August 2005: Forgotten: A Labor of Love.

March 2005:

• Streaming Audio, March 2005: "We Speak Louder Than Machines" by Steve Jones and sung by Pam Parker on her new album "Imagine". Featured song on "Labor Notes Streaming Song Of The Month".

• Radio Interview, March 16, 2005, 6:00-6:30 am: WBAI, 99.5 FM, New York City. Mimi Rosenberg interviewed Steve Jones and Elise Bryant about "Forgotten".

Summer 2004:

• Michigan Labor History Society Newsletter: Sold-Out Audiences Enjoy 'Forgotten', Summer 2004, by Shawn D. Ellis, editor of the Metro Detroit Labor News, where this review originally appeared.
  
  

August 2004:

• Cornell Report, Volume 27, No. 2: Murder Mystery Yields Jazz Opera, Summer 2004
  
  

July 2004:

• Thur., July 8, 2004, 6-7 pm central time: Heartland Labor Forum KKFI 90.1 FM in Kansas City. Excerpts from the broadcast. Jeff Humfeld interviewed Steve Jones to discuss "Forgotten". More information.
  

May 2004:

• "Making Strides" International Musician Monthly Magazine (requires subscription or membership number): Jazz Opera Inspired by Activist's Death in 1930s, May 2004
  
  

April 2004, St. Paul:

• Workday Minnesota (Review of Macalester show): 'Forgotten' helps us remember by Michael Kuchta, April 30, 2004
  
  
• Metro Detroit AFL-CIO: Sold-Out Audiences Enjoy 'Forgotten' by Shawn Ellis, April 2004. Reprinted in the Michigan Labor History Society Newsletter, Summer 2004
  
  
• The Mac Weekly: A musical not to be "Forgotten" by Katie Fowley, April 23, 2004
  
  
• Workday Minnesota: New musical drama tells true story of 1930s workplace murder by Barb Kucera, April 18, 2004. Also available at UAW Local 14.
  
  

March 2004, Detroit:

• Dearborn Times-Herald (Review of Detroit show): A Jazz Opera: 'Forgotten - A Murder at the Ford Rouge Plant' by Sue Suchyta, March 10, 2004
  
  
• The Oakland Press: Opera composer turns to jazz and solves a mystery by Robert Musial, March 7, 2004
  
  
• National Public Radio's Morning Edition 'Forgotten': A Tale of Unions, Murder at Ford by Bob Edwards, March 5, 2004. Audio.
  
  
• Detroit Free Press: A Union of Music and Mystery: Activist's death at Rouge Plant in the '30s spawns jazz opera by Martin F. Kohn, March 4, 2004
  
  
• Detroit Metro Times: Dead Can Sing by W. Kim Heron, March 3, 2004
  
  
• C&G Newspapers: Gone, but Not 'Forgotten' Activist Minister Remembered in Jazz Opera by K. Michelle Moran
  
  
• Witness Magazine: Was Detroit Priest Murdered? Jazz Opera Tells the Story by Bill Wylie-Kellermann
  
  
• SEMCOSH Health and Safety Advocate: Re claiming worker culture: Labor artist & activist Elise Bryant by Jeff Ditz, Photos by Rebecca Cook
  
  
• Metropolitan Detroit AFL-CIO: Musical remembers labor activist's life by Tom Schram, Special to the Labor News, Photos by Shawn D. Ellis
  
  

May 2003, George Meany Center-National Labor College:

• Review of "Forgotten" performed at George Meany Labor Studies Center, May 2-3, 2003