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Nov 22 2006

If a Frog Had Wings He Wouldn’t Bump His Ass so Much

Posted by Jerry Bowles in Classical Music, Contemporary Classical, Piano, S21 Concert

The brilliant and talented piano and TabletPC genuis Hugh Sung has a terrific post about the Sequenza21 concert where he was a star performer.  Hugh is also one of the nicest people alive.

Kyle Gann, who drove two hours down and two hours back to Bard for the concert, has some nice words about the concert here.  Kyle turned 37 yesterday.

Our congratulations to regular Darcy James Argue who is one of the 29 recipients of the latest round of the American Music Center’s Composer Assistance Program (CAP).  The complete list is here. 

Altman was one of the best.

Update:  Speaking of birthdays, today is Gunther Schuller’s 81st.  Richard Buell tells me that when Schuller was 16 and the first horn of the the Cincinnati Symphony, he auditioned for the Ellington band, playing Johnny Hodges’s charts.

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7 Responses to “If a Frog Had Wings He Wouldn’t Bump His Ass so Much”
  1. Hugh Sung says:
    November 22, 2006 at 3:36 pm

    Thanks for the kind words! blush blush – just wanted to let y’all know that i just posted my own mini-gallery of pictures from the event. Wish i could’ve taken more pictures from the other acts :( Hope you enjoy the shots!
    The article containing the link to my pictures gallery is http://hughsung.com/blog/index.php?itemid=617

  2. Kyle Gann says:
    November 22, 2006 at 5:24 pm

    Aw geez, givin’ away my age now…

  3. lawrencedillon says:
    November 22, 2006 at 8:54 pm

    I miss seeing Ian’s picture on the S21 cover page.

  4. david toub says:
    November 22, 2006 at 10:42 pm

    Yeah…my wife was just commenting on how much she liked that photo of Ian.

  5. David Salvage says:
    November 22, 2006 at 11:09 pm

    It’s hard to believe Altman’s gone. M*A*S*H is one of my favorites, and I was happy he was the one to put Garrison Keillor on screen: kindred spirits if there ever were any.

    I’d like to make some comment about how “musical” a director Altman was. But I’m having trouble substantiating my thoughts.

  6. Jerry Bowles says:
    November 23, 2006 at 1:26 pm

    He directed William Bolcom’s adaptation of his film “A Wedding” for the Chicago Lyric Opera and one of his last films, The Company, was about the Joffrey Ballet.

  7. Scott L. Hines says:
    November 23, 2006 at 2:15 pm

    Sorry if I missed this, but will a recording be made available for those out in the wilderness who couldn’t make the concert?

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