Yeah, I have it on CD, & it's one of his more UN-relaxed pieces. I'd
think that hearing it as part of an audience might prove even more
powerfully evocative.
I confess: this time, traveling in Poland, I wasn't thinking back, but
enjoying the views of Polish 'prairie' which has a lot in common with
the Canadian one. So I was just snapping the seen environment....
Doug
On 27-Oct-05, at 11:38 AM, Knut Mork Skagen wrote:
> On Oct 27, 2005, at 15:08, Ken Wolman wrote:
>>
>> Thank you, Douglas.
>>
>> TOTAL RECALL: THE POLISH RAILWAYS
>
> What a juxtaposition.
>
> Are either of you familiar with composer Steve Reich's "Different
> Trains"? A friend tipped me off to a concert performance of it and I
> had no idea about the theme, just thought it was an odd title for a
> string quartet. It begins as a highly minimalist and somewhat
> eccentric musical history of the American railroad but gradually and
> inevitably segues into the Polish railways of Ken's poem. Needless to
> say I left the auditorium in a very different state than when I came
> in.
>
> --Knut
>
>
Douglas Barbour
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