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Rumsfeld rhymes
earn own album
A musician named Bryant
Kong took famous quotes
from Donald Rumsfeld and
set them to song-like lyrics
By Julie Hinds
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
DErROIT — First came the "poetry"
of Donald Rumsfeld, those oddly lyri
cal quotes from the Defense Secretary
that were compiled in a book last year.
A famous sample: "As we know,
there are known knowns. There are
things we know we know. We also
know there are known unknowns."
Honest — Rumsfeld actually said
this at a news briefing.
Now a Detroit area native, Bryant
Kong, has written songs for that
poem and six others and released a
CD of them.
"The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld
and Other Fresh American Art Songs"
is Kong's debut album. He's promoting
it as good music and a good laugh.
"If you think of Rumsfeld as a char
acter in a Gulf War II musical, these
are the songs he might sing," he says.
Kong is new to composing, having
made the switch from a business ca
reer after being nudged along by the
burst of the dot-com bubble.
Here are the known knowns:
Kong, 35, grew up in Grosse
Pointe Woods, Mich., and spent
many summers studying choral and
instrumental music.
After graduating from high school, he
figured he'd become a professor like his
mother, Dr. Yi-chi Kong, who teaches
immunology at Wayne State University.
Fie majored in chemistry and French
at a Minnesota college. After that, he
studied French in graduate school at
UC Berkeley, but didn't like the pro
gram and left. Eventually, he settled in
San Francisco and worked first for non
profit groups, later for AT&T.
None of this, granted, had much to
do with music. Yet all along, Kong
had been playing the piano and per
forming in amateur recitals. He did it
for enjoyment, not because he was
lining up a spare profession.
Soon enough, he'd need one. In
2002, Kong found himself fresh out
of UCLA with a new MBA and a goal
of finding work in the high-tech field
— bad timing in a burst-bubble
economy, indeed.
"I was unemployed for so long, I
had time to write music," Kong says.
In April 2003, the Rumsfeld poems
appeared on Slate.com in an article by
journalist Hart Seely, who created
them using direct quotes from De
fense Department transcripts. Later,
Seely did an expanded book version,
"Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential
Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld"
($12.95, Free Press).
Kong read the poems online and
began writing a seven-part song cycle
based on them, drawing on influ
ences ranging from modem classical
composers like Paul Hindemith to
cabaret and pop.
"Hie seven original Rumsfeld poems,
I thought they'd make a wonderful set
because they weren't all the same," he
says. "They have a range of moods and
suggest a variety of musical styles."
On one song, "The Digital Revolu
tion," he pairs a lilting melody with
Rumsfeld's thoughts on the Internet:
"A trained ape can know an awful lot
of what is going on in this world, just
by punching on his mouse for a rela
tively modest cost!"
For another, "Happenings," he uses
a throbbing march beat that matches
Rumsfeld's cautionary remarks to re
porters: "You're going to be told lots
of things. You get told things every
day that don't happen."
Kong and his friend, soprano Elen
der Wall, tried out three songs at a
concert with an anti-war theme last
May in San Francisco.
The audience response was so en
couraging that Kong was convinced
he was onto something.
"They busted out laughing con
stantly," he remembers. "We found
people enjoyed them as humor and
as music."
Around this time, Kong's MBA
came in handy. After drawing up a
business plan, he formed his own
record label, Stuffed Penguin Music,
and released an album of Rumsfeld
songs, with him on piano and Wall
on vocals.
The CD has been out for about a
month and was featured recently on
National Public Radio's "Morning
Edition." It's available at Stuffed Pen
guin's Web site at http ://www. stuffed
penguin.com for $15.99.
For his next project, Kong plans to
explore other social and political topics.
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