I actually heard Rothenberg perform some Horse Songs in Glasgow, at a
Sound Poetry festival there in the 80s: amazing stuff.
Stephen Scobie & I used to perform 'The First Men on Mercury' as a
piece for two voices, & when I finally met Morgan in Toronto (at that
other SP festival), I told him & basically asked him for his
imprimatur, which he gave with grace & humour. He seemed pleased that
we had turned it into a duo piece. A lovely man.
Doug
On 8-Dec-07, at 5:34 PM, Peter Cudmore wrote:
> There is little to tell; I suppose he's the prototype of a professional
> poet, unflashy, unostentatious, and just very good at what he does. For
> instance, I don't remember why exactly I was asking him, but he was
> able to
> produce, more or less instantly, a photocopy of Frank Mitchell's Horse
> Song
> #11 and send it to me.
>
> I suppose he's in Glasgow and I'm in Edinburgh, so there's that
> distance;
> Robin's more likely to have the anecdotes.
>
> P
>
> By the way, Jerome Rothenberg's performance of the Horse Songs is on
> Ubu, I
> discovered recently; they don't sound anything like I imagined.
> <http://www.ubu.com/sound/rothenberg.html>
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