As I say, Chris, there are many rights and what you talk about it is only
one of them or one set of them.
I envy you the stage and lights (I suppose) and large audience and radio
As to the microphone, I would be as prescriptive as you and say you don't
need it. Can't you make yourself heard in a large hall? Work on it.
Maybe that can't be done...
Well, no more can I remember my poems that well. I sometimes change them
in performance. And in much of my work I am improvising either at base or
else in response to what another performer / reader / musician is doing.
L
On Fri, August 31, 2012 23:02, Chris Jones wrote:
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>> but there are many rights and one wants the freshness
>
> Actually, if one is to give a reading, and know in advance, it should
> practiced to the point where you can almost remember the poetry you are to
> read. After all, you are up there on stage, the lights are on you, there
> is a large audience, a microphone you need to know how to use, someone on
> the mixer panel, fold back, you are being recorded, it may be on FM radio
> the next day, you have to get it right. These people have paid money at
> the door, at least you owe them that, if not the very best reading you can
> give.
>
> BBQ, although it looks easy, is very hard to read. That is something
> else I need to consider.
>
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Lawrence Upton
http://sho-zyg.com/upton.html
Honorary Research Fellow, Music Dept,
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London SE14 6NW
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