Comments on: The Gospel According to Uncle Milton

By: zeno

zeno — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:47:03 +0000

I had planned to go but couldn’t due to sudden illness and was very sorry once I saw that you had come down for the launch. Anne could have introduced us. …
The photos are very very precious. Thank you. (I think that I wanted to look like the man in the second row, on the far right; while you remind me of Harry Birtwistle in the first photo, top left).

(The past few days I am trying to remember, precisely, that Beckett play that I saw, as part of the trilogy, about 30 years ago on the Library of Congress stage.)

By: Jerry Bowles

Jerry Bowles — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:03:30 +0000

Thanks for the background, Garth. Did I miss you at the concerts last week? Thanks, too, for mentioning the Graceland (have no idea why I called them that) pictures. I discovered last week that an iPhone is an easy way to copy pictures from a photo album without scanning so I put together a small collection of Suzanne and me from our Flower Child days to share with family and friends. Sequenza21 regulars certainly qualify on both counts. The link is here: http://bit.ly/yfjyuq

By: zeno

zeno — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:39:06 +0000

Jerry, I think that one of the reasons that the new Library of Congress Fund didn’t commission George Crumb (a favorite of Dina’s and her group’s) was that just last April [2011] the Library of Congress hosted the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and baritone Thomas Hampson in what, I believe, were world premiere additions to Crumb’s “American Songbooks,” vol. 1-6.

I think that those new and absolutely extraordinary Civil War song treatments, featuring an astounding Thomas Hampson (and Gil Kalish, among others, performing astoundingly on both piano and shofar), deserve the Pulitzer Prize for Music 2012.

That was a concert I will remember for decades! (I just missed the Ancient Voices premiere at the Library in 1970, but I did hear mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani and her teenage daughter — and Gil Kalish and New York’s Contemporary Chamber Ensemble — perform the work just over three years later in Hertz Hall.)

(When do we get to see your old newly-wed Graceland photos?)

By: Frank Brickle

Frank Brickle — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:03:36 +0000

Good comments. One small item — “Neo-Medieval Psychedelia” is somebody else’s invention, don’t know who. I love it and wish I’d thought of it, but…

By: Susan Scheid

Susan Scheid — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:29:17 +0000

A great report from the field, Jerry, and your last paragraph, well, I loved that best of all. Hugs from here, as well.