Just arrived in Lagorce, unpacked, checked the winter damage etc. Following all these lively discussions with interest - but feel I am in duty bound to point out, and thus disillusion you, Doug ;-)
- the Dolphy saying you refer to was a previously taped comment simply added to the record which, at the time, was regarded as his last recording - I believe I have a CD with music recorded even later.
I am a compulsive Dolphy junkie.
Martin
Wenn die ganze Zivilisation zum Teufel ginge - ich würde es nicht bedauern; nur um die Musik tät' es mir leid.
Leo Tolstoy
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From: Douglas Barbour
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Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: Duende, etc.
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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