Even without the final lines, it has a sharpness that comes from both of you, barry.
Doug
On 2011-05-19, at 2:41 PM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> SAY GEORGE CRUMB
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> [Don’t chance it down.]
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> Spirituality little abstract. Something you feel
> absolute. Silence by degrees.
> You might hear one phrase in E minor.
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> 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)
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9B2WtNtaW8
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeIvWF2thNU
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