Whew, Alison. I don't know this man's songs. But, as we used to say, he clearly, "pulled your coat"!! &, it sounds, deservedly.
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
--- On Wed, 4/8/09, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Duende, etc.
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009, 10:22 PM
That essay is also in Deep Song & Other Essays (I think it's called
that). A signal book for me.
Here's me using the term in discussing a totally brilliant cabaret
artist, Paul Capsis -
http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com/2007/06/on-paul-capsis.html
xA
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Douglas Barbour
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> Wh definitely had duende, too. I certainly agree about Miles.
>
> On his last recording, Dolphy said: 'When you hear music, after it’s
over,
> it’s gone in the air. You can never capture it again.'
>
> One of the ironies of trying to deal with Benjamin's concept of the
'aura,'
> which is discussed at length in a new book, Mapping Benjamin: The Work of
> Art in the Digital Age, is that the particular music he's speaking of
was
> recorded 'live' as was the comment, so I have it to mull over over
& over
> again....
>
> Doug
>
> On 7-Apr-09, at 3:10 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
>
>> I don't if it is out on the internet - but Lorca's lecture in
Cuba on his
>> interpretation of "duende" is in the appendix of Ben
Bellit's Grove Press
>> edition of "Poet in New York."
>>
>> In my early twenties starting out, that essay and Rilke's
"Letters to a
>> Young Poet" went right to the heart. As did William Carlos
William's "The
>> Desert Music." More so.
>>
>> I think I will go put on some Eric Dolpy.
>
> Douglas Barbour
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>
> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>
> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> Wednesdays'
>
http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>
> The covers of this book are too far apart.
>
> Ambrose Bierce
>
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