Like this, Barry.
The enigmatic/ambiguous:
Even engraving erases that personality.
I read it first an engraving with even lines eliminates personality.
Or that an engraving by definition will erase the personality on which it was based and present another person.
The work has an attractive precision about it - 'timbres' well in place.
Refreshing.
I will look at/listen to the videos.
Growtoski Polish theater group in town - will make haptic there. Those exercises used to be my adventure/pleasures.
Stephen V
--- On Thu, 5/19/11, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Snap Late Crumb
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Thursday, May 19, 2011, 1:41 PM
SAY GEORGE CRUMB
[Don’t chance it down.]
Spirituality little abstract. Something you feel
absolute. Silence by degrees.
You might hear one phrase in E minor.
Got part of it down and adapted it himself.
Even engraving erases that personality.
Originally I notated in the score: “amplified voice”.
Requirements for special timbres.
Grew up with an upright piano;
exploration of that.
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Barry Alpert / Silver Spring MD US / 4-28-11 (6:30 PM) - 5-19-11 (4:39 PM)
Originally drafted at the Library of Congress in Washington DC while listening to the
composer George Crumb being questioned about the forthcoming performance that
same evening of ten selections from his American Songbooks. Since Crumb finished
talking before I could complete the form I had in mind, I tried to find another source
of language about the same material. That strategy didn't quite work, though today
I was able to incorporate as an appropriate inscription a line I thought I heard while
witnessing the performance of the songs themselves.
Here are links to two videos from youtube which supply useful background, though
none of the individual songs from this massive work have yet been made available
there:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9B2WtNtaW8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeIvWF2thNU
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