Friday, May 30, 2014

Folkopea

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Motorcycles

Motorcycles! Motorcycles! I thought there were only one hundred thousand. I understand many more. Roads Clogged. But Impressive indeed.

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Weekly message

Began my weekly messages to the Seventh Street Playhouse, Gallo Music Company, Easter Market Studios, and Browns Court Publishing partners today. A start--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMcT-BOS96A

Monday, May 19, 2014

National Press Club on May 16: Introduction of American Legion newsmakers on finding Employment for Returning Vets


National Press Club on May 16:  Introduction of American Legion newsmakers on finding  Employment for Returning Vets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7iuiMZ9Z3k

View short selected clips from The Springfield Boys

View short selected clips from The Springfield Boys staged reading at the Cosmos Club on May 17 http://lnkd.in/dqM3SQd
http://lnkd.in/dPzQZFm

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Sprinfield Debut


Outstanding performances and a full house for the Cosmos Theatre debut of The Springfield Boys.

Thursday, May 15, 2014

On C Span Live on May 16: Finding Employment for Returning Service Men and Women

Location: Bloomberg Room
Please watch this program on C Span 3 Live tomorrow at 10AM
http://press.org/events/unemployment-among-returning-service-personnel-gaining-momentum
...Location: Bloomberg Room
New American Legion Effort to Reduce Unemployment Among Returning Service Personnel Gaining Momentum
Program Helps Turn Military Training and Expertise
Into Private Sector Professional Certifications and Licenses
Washington, DC – As the men and women of the U.S. military redeploy home after a decade-plus of war – and the Department of Defense simultaneously begins a dramatic drawdown in its military strength – soon to be veterans face a daunting jobs environment after they hang up their uniforms and face the very real prospect of extended periods of unemployment.
In recent years, the initial bow wave of separating military men and women have experienced some discouraging employment figures. Despite their state of the art training, high levels of experience and above the cut work ethos in a vast array of occupational specialties, newly separated veterans under 25-years old have confronted unemployment rates hovering at or above 18%.
At a National Press Club Newsmakers news conference, Steve Gonzalez, Deputy Director of Employment and Education Programs for The American Legion, and Bill Brigman, Senior Policy analyst with the firm SOLID LLC, will discuss a military workforce development effort that is gaining momentum. That effort is assisting military service members, well before they separate from the military, apply their training and experience towards attainment of recognized and sought after professional certifications and licenses. The goal is to win faster placement of returning service personnel into private sector jobs, by giving hiring authorities better understand their knowledge, skills and abilities.
This Newsmaker news conference is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Friday, May 16, 2014 in the club’s Bloomberg Room, on the 13th Floor of the National Press Building at 529 14th St. NW, Washington DC, 20045.
Like all Newsmaker events, this news conference is open to credentialed media and National Press Club members. It is free of charge and no advance registration is necessary.
Contact:
Tony Gallo, NPC Newsmakers Event Host
202 -544-6973, agallo2368@verizon.net

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

The Springfield Boys at Cosmos Theatre


The Cosmos Theatre presents  THE SPRINGFIELD BOYS by Anthony E. Gallo  Saturday May 17, 2014 11:30 AM Powell Room.  

 


 

This two-act dramedy by playwright traces the historically significant relationship among Abraham Lincoln, his very closest friend Joshua Fry Speed, and his law partner William H.(Billy) Herndon, from 1837 to 1891 (26 years after the Lincoln assassination).  Both Speed and Herndon played important roles in the legacy of the 16th president.  Oh yes, the Springfield Girls also have their say.  And the boys even help one another on their roads to marriage.  This premiere staged reading of The Springfield Boys will be performed by the Cosmos Theater Players.  How did the pro-slavery Speed, who shared a bed with Lincoln for four years, help preserve the Union?  How did he deal with Mr. Lincoln’s “blue periods”?  Why did Mr. Lincoln choose this man as his only complete friend ever?  Where is the Bible Mr. Speed’s mother gave young Mr. Lincoln (during one of his blue periods) located today?  No one showed greater political allegiance to Lincoln than Billy, who wrote one of only two eyewitness biographies of the tragic president.  Lincoln assistants John Hay and John Nicolay’s 10-volume biography is frequently dismissed as too hagiographic.  But Billy’s innumerable eye-popping but questionable assertions about Lincoln and his family have influenced Lincoln biographers from Carl Sandburg and Ida Tarbell to David Donald. But was Mr. Lincoln really a free thinking agnostic?  Was he illegitimate? Other claims were even more shocking.  Did Herndon forever malign Mary Lincoln because of their mutual hatred (He: “She dances like a serpent;” She: “He’s an uncouth drunkard”)?

 

Abraham Lincoln                                              Stanley Cloud

William Herndon                                               George Spencer

Joshua Speed                                                       Brian Doyle

Robert Lincoln, Ensemble                               Bruce Smith

Fanny Speed, Ensemble                                    Tarpley Long

Anna Herndon, Ensemble                                Bunty Ketcham

Mary Lincoln, Ensemble                                 Loraine Nordlinger

Elizabeth  Edward,  Ensemble, ,                     Gloria Rall

Lucy Speed,  Ensemble,                                    Liane Atlas

Phineas Gurley, SC Speaker, Ensemble       Eric Beshers

Stanton, Clerk,, Pastor Ensemble,                 Dick De Corps

Chief Justice, Edwards, , Ensemble               David Martin

John Hay, Joseph ,Ensemble                          Hugh Hill

Narrator, Sound Design, Ensemble              Trix Whitehall

 

Questions:  agallo2368@verizon.net and 202 544 6973

 

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

American Legion

Location: Bloomberg Room

New American Legion Effort to Reduce Unemployment Among Returning Service Personnel Gaining Momentum

Program Helps Turn Military Training and Expertise
Into Private Sector Professional Certifications and Licenses
Washington, DC – As the men and women of the U.S. milita
ry redeploy home after a decade-plus of war – and the Department of Defense simultaneously begins a dramatic drawdown in its military strength – soon to be veterans face a daunting jobs environment after they hang up their uniforms and face the very real prospect of extended periods of unemployment.
In recent years, the initial bow wave of separating military men and women have experienced some discouraging employment figures. Despite their state of the art training, high levels of experience and above the cut work ethos in a vast array of occupational specialties, newly separated veterans under 25-years old have confronted unemployment rates hovering at or above 18%.
At a National Press Club Newsmakers news conference, Steve Gonzalez, Deputy Director of Employment and Education Programs for The American Legion, and Bill Brigman, Senior Policy analyst with the firm SOLID LLC, will discuss a military workforce development effort that is gaining momentum. That effort is assisting military service members, well before they separate from the military, apply their training and experience towards attainment of recognized and sought after professional certifications and licenses. The goal is to win faster placement of returning service personnel into private sector jobs, by giving hiring authorities better understand their knowledge, skills and abilities.
This Newsmaker news conference is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Friday, May 16, 2014 in the club’s Bloomberg Room, on the 13th Floor of the National Press Building at 529 14th St. NW, Washington DC, 20045.
Like all Newsmaker events, this news conference is open to credentialed media and National Press Club members. It is free of charge and no advance registration is necessary.
Contact:
Tony Gallo, NPC Newsmakers Event Host
202 -544-6973, agallo2368@verizon.net

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Unemployment Among Veterans

At a National Press Club Newsmakers news conference, Steve Gonzalez, Deputy Director of Employment and Education Programs for The American Legion, and Bill Brigman, Senior Policy analyst with the firm SOLID LLC, will discuss a military workforce development effort that is gaining momentum. I will be hosting. http://lnkd.in/dNdZyDn

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Lord, Open My Heart

John Ward just completed another song, Lord, Open my Heart, for the folk opera Lincoln and God. You can listen to it at the web site. Premiere showing will be at the Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival on Labour Day weekend. http://www.aegallo.com/lincop.html

Monday, May 5, 2014

The Springfield Boys Debuts at Cosmos


The Springfield Boys, my newest two-act play (Number 15), will debut at The Cosmos Club on Saturday, May 17 at noon. http://springfield.aegallo.com
The home of Abraham and Mary Lincoln in Springfield,
.

Friday, May 2, 2014

Fotos from our trip to Vietnam, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. 2014



  Fotos from our trip to Vietnam, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.  2014